Stress-regulated genes of plants, transgenic plants containing same, and methods of use

ABSTRACT

Clusters of plant genes that are regulated in response to one or more stress conditions are provided, as are isolated plant stress-regulated genes, including portions thereof comprising a coding sequence or a regulatory element, and to consensus sequences comprising a plant stress-regulated regulatory element. In addition, a recombinant polynucleotide, which includes a plant stress-regulated gene, or functional portion thereof, operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence, is provided, as are transgenic plants, which contain a plant stress-regulated gene or functional portion thereof that was introduced into a progenitor cell of the plant. Also provided are methods of using a plant stress-regulated gene to confer upon a plant a selective advantage to a stress condition, methods of identifying an agent that modulates the activity of a plant stress-regulated regulatory element, and methods of determining whether a plant has been exposed to a stress.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation application of U.S. application Ser.No. 09/938,842 filed Aug. 24, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,109,033; whichclaims the benefit under 35 USC § 119(e) to U.S. Application Ser. No.60/300,111 filed Jun. 22, 2001, now abandoned, U.S. Application Ser. No.60/264,647 filed Jan. 26, 2001, now abandoned, and to U.S. ApplicationSer. No. 60/227,866 filed Aug. 24, 2000, now abandoned. The disclosureof each of the prior applications is considered part of and isincorporated by reference in the disclosure of this application.

Three CD-R compact discs, labeled “Copy 1”, “Copy 2”, and “CRF” andhaving the files listed below, are submitted herewith and areincorporated herein by reference. Copy 1 and Copy 2 each contain twotext documents: 1) a file named SCRIP1300-3_SEQUENCE_LISTING, whichcontains the Sequence Listing, was created on Aug. 20, 2001 (andrecorded on the CD-R on Aug. 21, 2001), and is 9,972 KB in size; and 2)a file named SCRIP1300-3_Table_(—)32, which contains Table 32, wascreated on Aug. 20, 2001 (and recorded on the CD-R on Aug. 21, 2001),and is 1,251 KB in size. The CRF contains a single file namedSCRIP1300-3_SEQUENCE_LISTING, which contains the Sequence Listing, wascreated on Aug. 20, 2001 (and recorded on the CD-R on Aug. 21, 2001), is9,972 KB in size, and is identical to the files having the same name onCopy 1 and Copy 2.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates generally to plant genes, the expressionof which are regulated in response to stress, and more specifically tothe gene regulatory elements involved in a stress-induced response inplants, to uses of the coding sequences and regulatory elements of suchplant stress-regulated genes, and to transgenic plants geneticallymodified to express such a coding sequence or to express a heterologouspolynucleotide from such a regulatory element.

2. Background Information

Microarray technology is a powerful tool that can be used to identifythe presence and level of expression of a large number ofpolynucleotides in a single assay. A microarray is formed by linking alarge number of discrete polynucleotide sequences, for example, apopulation of polynucleotides representative of a genome of an organism,to a solid support such as a microchip, glass slide, or the like, in adefined pattern. By contacting the microarray with a nucleic acid sampleobtained from a cell of interest, and detecting those polynucleotidesexpressed in the cell can hybridize specifically to complementarysequences on the chip, the pattern formed by the hybridizingpolynucleotides allows the identification of clusters of genes that areexpressed in the cell. Furthermore, where each polynucleotide linked tothe solid support is known, the identity of the hybridizing sequencesfrom the nucleic acid sample can be identified.

A strength of microarray technology is that it allows the identificationof differential gene expression simply by comparing patterns ofhybridization. For example, by comparing the hybridization pattern ofnucleic acid molecules obtained from cells of an individual sufferingfrom a disease with the nucleic acids obtained from the correspondingcells of a healthy individual, genes that are differentially expressedcan be identified. The identification of such differentially expressedgenes provides a means to identify new genes, and can provide insight asto the etiology of a disease.

Microarray technology has been widely used to identify patterns of geneexpression associated with particular stages of development or ofdisease conditions in animal model systems, and is being applied to theidentification of specific patterns of gene expression in humans. Therecent availability of information for the genomes of plants provides ameans to adapt microarray technology to the study of plant geneexpression.

Plants and plant products provide the primary sustenance, eitherdirectly or indirectly, for all animal life, including humans. For themajority of the world's human population and for many animals, plantsand plant products provide the sole source of nutrition. As the worldpopulation increases, the best hope to prevent widespread famine is toincrease the quantity and improve the quality of food crops, and to makethe crops available to the regions of the world most in need of food.

Throughout history, a continual effort has been made to increase theyield and nutritious value of food crops. For centuries, plants havingdesirable characteristics such as greater resistance to droughtconditions or increased size of fruit were crossbred and progeny plantsexhibiting the desired characteristics were selected and used to produceseed or cuttings for propagation. Using such classical genetic methods,plants having, for example, greater disease resistance, increased yield,and better flavor have been obtained. The identification of plant genesinvolved in conferring a selective advantage on the plant to anenvironmental challenge would facilitate the generation and yield ofplants, thereby increasing the available food supply to an increasingworld population. The involvement of these genes in a single organism toresponses to multiple stress conditions, however, remains unknown. Thus,a need exists to identify plant genes and polynucleotides that areinvolved in modulating the response of a plant to changing environmentalconditions. The present invention satisfies this need and providesadditional advantages.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to clusters of genes that are regulated inresponse to a stress condition in plants. Such clusters include, forexample, plant polynucleotides whose expression is altered in responseto two or more different stress conditions; and plant polynucleotidesthe expression of which are altered in response to one stress condition,but not to others. The identification of such clusters, using microarraytechnology, has allowed the identification of plant stress-regulatedgenes in Arabidopsis thaliana (see Tables 1 and 2); and homologs andorthologs thereof in other plant species (see Table 32). Thus, theinvention provides isolated polynucleotide portions of Arabidopsis plantstress-regulated genes, and homologs and orthologs thereof; variants ofsuch sequences, and polynucleotides encoding substantially similar plantstress-regulated polypeptides expressed therefrom. Such sequencesinclude, for example, sequences encoding transcription factors; enzymes,including kinases; and structural proteins, including channel proteins(see Tables 29-31). Accordingly, the present invention also relates toan isolated polynucleotide comprising all or a portion of a plantstress-regulated gene, and to polynucleotide portions thereof, includinga coding region (open reading frame), which encodes all or a portion ofa stress-regulated polypeptide, for example, as set forth in SEQ ID NOS:1-2703; and a regulatory element involved in regulating the response ofthe plant to a stress condition such exposure to an abnormal level ofsalt, osmotic pressure, temperature or any combination thereof, forexample, as set forth in SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379.

The present invention also relates to a recombinant polynucleotide,which contains a nucleotide sequence of a plant stress-regulated gene orfunctional portion thereof operatively linked to a heterologousnucleotide sequence. In one embodiment, the recombinant polynucleotidecomprises a plant stress-regulated gene regulatory element operativelylinked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence, which is not regulated bythe regulatory element in a naturally occurring plant. The heterologousnucleotide sequence, when expressed from the regulatory element, canconfer a desirable phenotype to a plant cell containing the recombinantpolynucleotide. In another embodiment, the recombinant polynucleotidecomprises a coding region, or portion thereof, of a plantstress-regulated gene operatively linked to a heterologous promoter. Theheterologous promoter provides a means to express an encodedstress-regulated polypeptide constitutively, or in a tissue-specific orphase-specific manner.

Accordingly, in one aspect, the present invention provides an isolatedpolynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence of a plant gene thathybridizes under stringent conditions, preferably high stringencyconditions, to any one of SEQ ID NOS:1-5379 (see Tables 1 and 2),including to a coding region (SEQ ID NOS: 1-2703) or a regulatoryregion, which can alter transcription of an operatively linked nucleicacid sequence in response to an abiotic stress (SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379;see Table 2), or to a complement thereof. Additional aspects providesequences that hybridize under stringent conditions, preferably highstringency conditions, to the complements of SEQ ID NO 1-1261 (coldresponsive genes; Tables 3-6), SEQ ID NOS:2227-2427 (saline responsivegenes; Tables 7-10), SEQ ID NOS:2428-2585 (osmotic responsive genes;Tables 11-14), SEQ ID NOS:1699-1969 (cold and osmotic responsive genes;Tables 15-17), SEQ ID NOS:1970-2226 (cold and saline responsive genes;Tables 18-20), SEQ ID NOS:2586-2703 (osmotic and saline responsivegenes; Tables 21-23), and SEQ ID NOS:1262-1698(cold, osmotic and salineresponsive genes; Tables 24-26), and which can comprise regulatoryregions that can alter transcription in response to cold stress, osmoticstress, saline stress, or combinations thereof (SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379;see Table 2). Also provided are nucleotide sequences complementarythereto, and expression cassettes, plants and seeds comprising any ofthe above isolated sequences.

In another aspect, the present invention provides an isolatedpolynucleotide comprising a plant nucleotide sequence that hybridizesunder stringent conditions, preferably high stringency conditions, tothe complement of any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1-2703 (Table 1), including toa coding region thereof (SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379), wherein expression ofsaid coding region is altered in response to an abiotic stress.Additional aspects provide sequences that hybridize under highstringency conditions to the complements of SEQ ID NO 1-1261 (coldresponsive genes; Tables 3-6), SEQ ID NOS:2227-2427 (saline responsivegenes; Tables 7-10), SEQ ID NOS:2428-2585 (osmotic responsive genes;Tables 11-14), SEQ ID NOS:1699-1969 (cold and osmotic responsive genes;Tables 15-17), SEQ ID NOS:1970-2226 (cold and saline responsive genes;Tables 18-20), SEQ ID NOS:2586-2703 (osmotic and saline responsivegenes; Tables 21-23), and SEQ ID NOS: 1262-1698(cold, osmotic and salineresponsive genes; Tables 24-26), and which can comprise a coding regionwhose transcription is altered in response to cold stress, osmoticstress, saline stress, or a combination thereof. Also provided arenucleotide sequences complementary thereto, and expression cassettes,plants and seeds comprising any of the above sequences.

The invention further relates to a method of producing a transgenicplant, which comprises at least one plant cell that exhibits alteredresponsiveness to a stress condition. In one embodiment, the method canbe performed by introducing a polynucleotide portion of plantstress-regulated gene into a plant cell genome, whereby thepolynucleotide portion of the plant stress-regulated gene modulates aresponse of the plant cell to a stress condition.

The polynucleotide portion of the plant stress-regulated gene can encodea stress-regulated polypeptide or functional peptide portion thereof(see SEQ ID NOS: 1-2703), wherein expression of the stress-regulatedpolypeptide or functional peptide portion thereof either increases thestress tolerance of the transgenic plant, or decreases the stresstolerance of the transgenic plant. The polynucleotide portion of theplant stress-regulated gene encoding the stress-regulated polypeptide orfunctional peptide portion thereof can be operatively linked to aheterologous promoter. The polynucleotide portion of the plantstress-regulated gene also can comprise a stress-regulated generegulatory element (see SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379). The stress-regulated generegulatory element can integrate into the plant cell genome in asite-specific manner, whereupon it can be operatively linked to aheterologous nucleotide sequence, which can be expressed in response toa stress condition specific for the regulatory element; or can be amutant regulatory element, which is not responsive to the stresscondition, whereby upon integrating into the plant cell genome, themutant regulatory element disrupts an endogenous stress-regulatedregulatory element of a plant stress-regulated gene, thereby alteringthe responsiveness of the plant stress-regulated gene to the stresscondition.

In one aspect, the invention provides a method for producing atransgenic plant by introducing into at least one plant cell arecombinant nucleic acid construct comprising i) all or a portion of anyone of SEQ ID NOS:1-5379; ii) a polynucleotide comprising a codingregion that hybridizes under conditions of high stringency to all or aportion of the complement of any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1-2703; iii) apolynucleotide comprising a sequence that alters transcription of anoperatively linked coding region in response to abiotic stress, and thathybridizes under conditions of high stringency to the complement of anyone of SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379; iv) a polynucleotide having at least 90%sequence identity with any one of SEQ ID NO: 1-5379; v) a fragment ofany one of the sequences of iv), wherein the fragment comprises a codingregion; or vi) a fragment of any one of the sequences of iv), whereinthe fragment comprises a nucleotide sequence that alters transcriptionof an operatively linked coding region in response to abiotic stress;and regenerating a plant from the at least one plant cell.

Another aspect provides a method for producing a transgenic plantcomprising introducing into at least one plant cell a recombinantnucleic acid construct comprising i) any one of SEQ ID NOS:1-1261 or2704-3955; ii) a polynucleotide comprising a coding region thathybridizes under conditions of high stringency to the complement of anyone of SEQ ID NOS:1-1261; iii) a polynucleotide comprising a sequencethat alters transcription of an operatively linked coding region inresponse to cold stress that hybridizes under conditions of highstringency to the complement of any one of SEQ ID NOS:2704-3955; iv) apolynucleotide that has at least 90% sequence identity with any one ofSEQ ID NOS: 1-1261 or 2704-3955; v) a fragment of any one of thesequences of iv), wherein the fragment comprises a coding region; or vi)a fragment of any one of the sequences of iv) wherein the fragmentcomprises a sequence or region that alters transcription of anoperatively linked coding region in response to cold stress; andregenerating a plant from the at least one plant cell.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method for producing atransgenic plant by introducing into at least one plant cell arecombinant nucleic acid construct comprising i) any one of SEQ IDNOS:2428-2585 or 5108-5263; ii) a polynucleotide comprising a codingregion that hybridizes under conditions of high stringency to thecomplement of any one of SEQ ID NOS:2428-2585; iii) a polynucleotidecomprising a sequence that alters transcription of an operatively linkedcoding region in response to osmotic stress that hybridizes underconditions of high stringency to the complement of any one of SEQ IDNOS:5108-5263; iv) a polynucleotide that has at least 90% sequenceidentity with any one of SEQ ID NOS:2428-2585 or 5108-5263; v) afragment of any one of the sequences of iv), wherein the fragmentcomprises a coding region; or vi) a fragment of any one of the sequencesof iv), wherein the fragment comprises a sequence or region that alterstranscription of an operatively linked coding region in response toosmotic stress; and regenerating a plant from the at least one plantcell.

Still another aspect provides a method for producing a transgenic plantcomprising introducing into at least one plant cell a recombinantnucleic acid construct comprising i) any one of SEQ ID NOS:2227-2427 or4910-5107; ii) a polynucleotide comprising a coding region thathybridizes under conditions of high stringency to the complement of anyone of SEQ ID NOS:2227-2427; iii) a polynucleotide comprising a sequencethat alters transcription of an operatively linked coding region inresponse to saline stress that hybridizes under conditions of highstringency to the complement of any one of SEQ ID NOS:2227-2427; iv) apolynucleotide that has at least 90% sequence identity with any one ofSEQ ID NOS:4910-5107; v) a fragment of any one of the sequences of iv),wherein the fragment comprises a coding region; or vi) a fragment of anyone of the sequences of iv) wherein the fragment comprises a sequence orregion that alters transcription of an operatively linked coding regionin response to saline stress; and regenerating a plant from the at leastone plant cell.

Yet another aspect provides a method for producing a transgenic plantcomprising introducing into at least one plant cell a recombinantnucleic acid construct comprising i) any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1699-1969 or4389-4654; ii) a polynucleotide comprising a coding region thathybridizes under conditions of high stringency to the complement of anyone of SEQ ID NOS: 1699-1969; iii) a polynucleotide comprising asequence that alters transcription of an operatively linked codingregion in response to a combination of cold and osmotic stress thathybridizes under conditions of high stringency to the complement of anyone of SEQ ID NOS:4389-4654; iv) a polynucleotide that has at least 90%sequence identity with any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1699-1969 or 4389-4654; v)a fragment of any one of the sequences of iv), wherein the fragmentcomprises a coding region; or vi) a fragment of any one of the sequencesof iv), wherein the fragment comprises a sequence or region that alterstranscription of an operatively linked coding region in response to acombination of cold and osmotic stress; and regenerating a plant fromthe at least one plant cell.

Yet another aspect provides a method for producing a transgenic plantcomprising introducing into at least one plant cell a recombinantnucleic acid construct comprising i) any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1970-2226 or4655-4909; ii) a polynucleotide comprising a coding region thathybridizes under conditions of high stringency to the complement of anyone of SEQ ID NOS:1970-2226; iii) a polynucleotide comprising a sequencethat alters transcription of an operatively linked coding region inresponse to a combination of cold and saline stress that hybridizesunder conditions of high stringency to the complement of any one of SEQID NOS:4655-4909; iv) a polynucleotide that has at least 90% sequenceidentity with array one of SEQ ID NOS: 1970-2226 or 4655-4909; v) afragment of any one of the sequences of iv), wherein the fragmentcomprises a coding region; or vi) a fragment of any one of the sequencesof iv), wherein the fragment comprises a sequence or region that alterstranscription of an operatively linked coding region in response to acombination of cold and saline stress; and regenerating a plant from theat least one plant cell.

A further aspect provides a method for producing a transgenic plantcomprising introducing into at least one plant cell a recombinantnucleic acid construct comprising i) any one of SEQ ID NOS:2586-2703 or5264-5379; ii) a polynucleotide comprising a coding region thathybridizes under conditions of high stringency to the complement of anyone of SEQ ID NOS:2586-2703; iii) a polynucleotide comprising a sequencethat alters transcription of an operatively linked coding region inresponse to a combination of osmotic and saline stress that hybridizesunder conditions of high stringency to the complement of any one of SEQID NOS: 5264-5379; iv) a polynucleotide that has at least 90% sequenceidentity with any one of SEQ ID NOS:2586-2703 or 5264-5379; v) afragment of any one of the sequences of iv), wherein the fragmentcomprises a coding region; or vi) a fragment of any one of the sequencesof iv), wherein the fragment comprises a sequence or region that alterstranscription of an operatively linked coding region in response to acombination of osmotic and saline stress; and regenerating a plant fromthe at least one plant cell.

Another aspect provides a method for producing a transgenic plantcomprising introducing into at least one plant cell a recombinantnucleic acid construct comprising i) any one of SEQ ID NOS:1262-1698 or3956-4388; ii) a polynucleotide comprising a coding region thathybridizes under conditions of high stringency to the complement of anyone of SEQ ID NOS: 1262-1698; iii) a polynucleotide comprising asequence that alters transcription of an operatively linked codingregion in response to a combination of cold, osmotic and saline stressthat hybridizes under conditions of high stringency to the complement ofany one of SEQ ID NOS:3956-4388; iv) a polynucleotide that has at least90% sequence identity with any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1262-1698 or3956-4388; v) a fragment of any one of the sequences of iv), wherein thefragment comprises a coding region; or vi) a fragment of any one of thesequences of iv) wherein the fragment comprises a sequence or regionthat alters transcription of an operatively linked coding region inresponse to a combination of cold, osmotic and saline stress; andregenerating a plant from the at least one plant cell. Further aspectsinclude plants and uniform populations of plants made by the abovemethods as well as seeds and progeny from such plants.

In another embodiment, a transgene introduced into a plant cellaccording to a method of the invention can encode a polypeptide thatregulates expression from an endogenous plant stress-regulated gene.Such a polypeptide can be, for example, a recombinantly producedpolypeptide comprising a zinc finger domain, which is specific for theregulatory element, and an effector domain, which can be a repressordomain or an activator domain. The polynucleotide encoding therecombinant polypeptide can be operatively linked to and expressed froma constitutively active, inducible or tissue specific or phase specificregulatory element. Expression of the recombinant polypeptide from aplant stress-regulated promoter as disclosed herein can be particularlyadvantageous in that the polypeptide can be coordinately expressed withthe endogenous plant stress-regulated genes upon exposure to a stresscondition. The invention also provides transgenic plants produced by amethod as disclosed, as well as to a plant cell obtained from suchtransgenic plant, wherein said plant cell exhibits alteredresponsiveness to the stress condition; a seed produced by thetransgenic plant; and a cDNA or genomic DNA library prepared from thetransgenic plant, or from a plant cell from said transgenic plant,wherein said plant cell exhibits altered responsiveness to the stresscondition.

In one aspect, the invention provides an isolated nucleic acid moleculecomprising a nucleotide sequence substantially similar to a sequence ofany one of SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379, which can alter transcription of anoperatively linked polynucleotide in a plant cell in response to anabiotic stress. Additional aspects of the invention provide isolatedpolynucleotides, including, for example, sequences substantially similarto any of SEQ ID NOS:2704-3955, which can alter transcription of anoperatively linked polynucleotide in response to a cold stress; isolatedpolynucleotides substantially similar to a sequence of any o-f SEQ IDNOS:5108-5263, which can alter transcription of an operatively linkedpolynucleotide in response to an osmotic stress; isolatedpolynucleotides substantially similar to a sequence of any of SEQ IDNOS:4910-5107, which can alter transcription of an operatively linkedpolynucleotide in response to a saline stress; isolated polynucleotidessubstantially similar to a sequence of any of SEQ ID NOS:4389-4654,which can alter transcription of an operatively linked polynucleotide inresponse to a combination of cold and osmotic stresses; isolatedpolynucleotides substantially similar to a sequence of any of SEQ IDNOS:4655-4909, which can alter transcription of an operatively linkedpolynucleotide in response to a combination of cold and saline stresses;isolated polynucleotides substantially similar to a sequence of any ofSEQ ID NOS:5264-5379, which can alter transcription of an operativelylinked polynucleotide in response to a combination of osmotic and salinestresses; and isolated polynucleotides substantially similar to asequence of any of SEQ ID NOS:3956-4388, which can alter transcriptionof an operatively linked polynucleotide in response to a combination ofcold, osmotic and saline stresses.

Related aspects of the invention provide an isolated nucleotidesequences that can alter transcription of an operatively linkedpolynucleotide in response to an abiotic stress, and that hybridizeunder stringent conditions, preferably highly stringent conditions, tothe complement of any one of SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379. Additional aspectsprovide an isolated nucleotide sequence that can alter transcription ofan operatively linked polynucleotide in response to cold stress, andthat hybridizes under stringent conditions, preferably highly stringentconditions, to the complement of any one of SEQ ID NOS:2704-3955; anucleotide sequence that alters transcription of an operatively linkedpolynucleotide in response to osmotic stress, and that hybridizes understringent conditions, preferably highly stringent conditions, to thecomplement of any one of SEQ ID NOS:5108-5263; a nucleotide sequencethat alters transcription of an operatively linked polynucleotide inresponse to saline stress, and that hybridizes under stringentconditions, preferably highly stringent conditions, to the complement ofany one of SEQ ID NOS:4910-5107; a nucleotide sequence that alterstranscription of an operatively linked polynucleotide in response to acombination of cold and osmotic stress, and that hybridizes understringent conditions, preferably highly stringent conditions, to thecomplement of any one of SEQ ID NOS:4389-4654; a nucleotide sequencethat alters transcription of an operatively linked polynucleotide inresponse to a combination of cold and saline stress, and that hybridizesunder stringent conditions, preferably highly stringent conditions, tothe complement of any one of SEQ ID NOS:4655-4909; a nucleotide sequencethat alters transcription of an operatively linked polynucleotide inresponse to an combination of osmotic and saline stress, and thathybridizes under stringent conditions, preferably highly stringentconditions, to the complement of any one of SEQ ID NOS:5264-5379; and anucleotide sequence that alters transcription of an operatively linkedpolynucleotide in response to a combination of cold, osmotic and salinestress, and that hybridizes under stringent conditions, preferablyhighly stringent conditions, to the complement of any one of SEQ IDNOS:3956-4388.

Further aspects provide an expression cassette comprising as operativelylinked components any of the above isolated nucleic acid sequences thatalter transcription, a coding region, and a termination sequence. Alsoprovided are host cells and seeds comprising such expression cassettes,plants containing such host cells and seeds and progeny of plantscontaining said host cells. In related aspects, the coding region of theexpression cassettes comprise sequences encoding marker proteins andsequences involved in gene silencing such as antisense sequences, doublestranded RNAi sequences, a triplexing agent, and sequences comprisingdominant negative mutations. In additional related aspects, the codingregions comprise sequences encoding polypeptides that alter the responseof a plant to an abiotic stress.

The present invention also relates to a method of modulating theresponsiveness of a plant cell to a stress condition. Such a method canbe performed, for example, by introducing a polynucleotide portion of aplant stress-regulated genes described herein into the plant cell,thereby modulating the responsiveness of the plant cell to a stresscondition. Such a method can result in the responsiveness of the plantcell being increased upon exposure to the stress condition, which, inturn, can result in increased or decreased tolerance of the plant cellto a stress condition; or can result in the responsiveness of the plantcell to the stress condition being decreased, which, in turn, can resultin increased or decreased tolerance of the plant cell to a stresscondition. In one embodiment, the polynucleotide portion of the plantstress-regulated gene can integrate into the genome of the plant cell,thereby modulating the responsiveness of the plant cell to the stresscondition. In another embodiment, the polynucleotide portion of theplant stress-regulated gene encodes a stress-regulated polypeptide orfunctional peptide portion thereof, and can be operatively linked to aheterologous promoter. The polynucleotide portion of the plantstress-regulated gene also can contain a mutation, whereby uponintegrating into the plant cell genome, the polynucleotide disrupts(knocks-out) an endogenous plant stress-regulated sequence, therebymodulating the responsiveness of the plant cell to the stress condition.Depending on whether the knocked-out gene encodes an adaptive or amaladaptive stress-regulated polypeptide, the responsiveness of theplant will be modulated accordingly.

The present invention further relates to a method of modulating theactivity of a biological pathway in a plant cell, wherein the pathwayinvolves a stress-regulated polypeptide or a non-protein regulatorymolecule. Such a method can be performed by introducing a polynucleotideportion of a plant stress-regulated gene, or a polynucleotide derivedtherefrom, for example a ribozyme derived from a nucleotide sequence asset forth in any of SEQ ID NOS: 1-2703, into the plant cell, therebymodulating the activity of the biological pathway. The method can beperformed with respect to a pathway involving any of thestress-regulated polypeptides as disclosed herein or encoded by thepolynucleotides disclosed herein, as well as using homologs or orthologsthereof. In one embodiment, the method is performed by introducing apolynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated gene into the plantcell, wherein the plant stress-regulated gene comprises a nucleotidesequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:1-155, 157-228, 230-232,234-557, 559-572, 574-605, 607-634, 636-786, 788-812, 814-1262,1264-1386, 1387-1390, 1392-1404, 1406-1444, 1446-1483, 1485-1588,1590-1608, 1610-1633, 1634-1725, 1727-1865, 1867-1917, 1919-1927,1929-2855, 2857-2928, 2930-2932, 2934-3256, 3258-3271, 3273-3304,3306-3323, 3325-3333, 3335-3485, 3487-3511, 3313-3956, 3958-4078,4080-4097, 4099-4136, 4138-4175, 4177-4279, 4281-4299, 4301-4324,4326-4414, 4416-4552, 4554-4602, and 4604-5379, thereby modulating theactivity of the biological pathway.

The present invention also relates to a method of identifying apolynucleotide that modulates a stress response in a plant cell. In oneembodiment the method comprises determining gene expression in a plantexposed to at least one stress to produce an expression profile andidentifying sequences whose expression is altered at least two foldcompared to plants not exposed to the stress. Such an expression profilecan be obtained, for example, by contacting an array of probesrepresentative of a plant cell genome with nucleic acid moleculesexpressed in a plant cell exposed to the stress; and detecting one ormore nucleic acid molecules expressed at a level different from a levelof expression in the absence of the stress. The method can furthercomprise introducing the differentially expressed nucleic acid moleculeinto a plant cell; and detecting a modulated response of the geneticallymodified plant cell to a stress, thereby identifying a polynucleotidethat modulates a stress response in a plant cell. The stress can be anystress, for example, an abiotic stress such as exposure to an abnormallevel of cold, osmotic pressure, and salinity. The contacting is underconditions that allow for selective hybridization of a nucleic acidmolecule with probe having sufficient complementarity, for example;under stringent hybridization conditions. Expression of the nucleic acidmolecule can increase or decrease the tolerance of the plant cell to thestress, and the nucleic acid molecule can be expressed at a level thatis less than or greater than the level of expression in the absence ofthe stress.

In still another embodiment, the polynucleotide portion of the plantstress-regulated gene can comprise a stress-regulated regulatoryelement, which can be operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotidesequence, the expression of which can modulate the responsiveness of theplant cell to a stress condition. Such a heterologous nucleotidesequence can encode, for example, a stress-inducible transcriptionfactor such as DREB1A. The heterologous nucleotide sequence also canencode a polynucleotide that is specific for a plant stress-regulatedgene, for example, an antisense molecule, an RNAi molecule, a ribozyme,and a triplexing agent, any of which, upon expression in the plant cell,reduces or inhibits expression of a stress-regulated polypeptide encodedby the gene, thereby modulating the responsiveness of the plant cell toa stress condition, for example, an abnormal level of cold, osmoticpressure, and salinity. In another aspect, the method can includeintroducing a polynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated geneinto the plant cell, wherein the plant stress-regulated gene includes anucleotide sequence of a polynucleotide as set forth in any of SEQ IDNOS:1-155, 157-228, 230-232, 234-557, 559-572, 574-605, 607-634,636-786, 788-812, 814-1262, 1264-1386, 1387-1390, 1392-1404, 1406-1444,1446-1483, 1485-1588, 1590-1608, 1610-1633, 1634-1725, 1727-1865,1867-1917, 1919-1927, 1929-2855, 2857-2928, 2930-2932, 2934-3256,3258-3271, 3273-3304, 3306-3323, 3325-3333, 3335-3485, 3487-3511,3313-3956, 3958-4078, 4080-4097, 4099-4136, 4138-4175, 4177-4279,4281-4299, 4301-4324, 4326-4414, 4416-4552, 4554-4602, and 4604-5379,thereby modulating the responsiveness of the plant cell to a stresscondition. The invention also relates to a plant cell obtained by any ofthe methods of modulating the responsiveness of a plant to a stresscondition or combination of stress conditions, and to a plant comprisingsuch a plant cell.

The present invention further relates to a method of selecting a planthaving an altered resistance to an abiotic stress condition or acombination of abiotic stress conditions, such a method being useful formarker-assisted breeding. Such a method can be performed, for example,by contacting nucleic acid molecules representative of expressedpolynucleotides in a plant cell of a plant to be examined for having analtered resistance to an abiotic stress with a nucleic acid probes thatselectively hybridizes under stringent conditions to a plantstress-regulated gene comprising a nucleotide sequence as set forth inany of SEQ ID NO: 1-5379; detecting a level of selective hybridizationof the nucleic acid probes to a nucleic acid molecule representative ofan expressed polynucleotide in the plant cell, wherein the level ofselective hybridization corresponds to the level of the expressedpolynucleotide in the plant cell, which is indicative of resistance ofthe plant to an abiotic stress; and selecting a plant having a level ofexpression of a polynucleotide indicative of altered resistance to anabiotic stress condition. For example, the abiotic stress condition canbe cold stress, and the nucleic acid probe can include at least about 15nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ IDNOS:1-1261 and 2704-3955, for example, at least about 15 nucleotides ofa nucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:1-155, 157-228,230-232, 234-557, 559-572, 574-605, 607-634, 636-786, 788-812, 814-1261,2704-2855, 2857-2928, 2930-2932, 2934-3256, 3258-3271, 3273-3304,3306-3323, 3325-3333, 3335-3485, 3487-3511, and 3313-3955; or theabiotic stress condition can be saline stress, and the nucleic acidprobe can include at least about 15 nucleotides of a nucleotide sequenceas set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:2226-2427 and 4910-5107; or theabiotic stress condition can be osmotic stress, and the nucleic acidprobe can include at least about 15 nucleotides of a nucleotide sequenceas set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:2428-2585 and 5108-5263. In addition,a combination of abiotic stress conditions can be a combination of coldstress and osmotic stress, and the nucleic acid probe can include atleast about 15 nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence as set forth in anyof SEQ ID NOS:1669-1969 and 4389-4654, for example, at least about 15nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:1699-1725, 1727-1865, 1867-1917, 1919-1927, 1929-1969, 4389-4414,4416-4552, 4554-4602, 4604-4612, and 4613-4654; or the combination ofabiotic stress conditions can be a combination of cold stress and salinestress, and the nucleic acid probe can include at least about 15nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ IDNOS:1970-2226 and 4655-4909; or the combination of abiotic stressconditions can be a combination of osmotic stress and saline stress, andthe nucleic acid probe can include at least about 15 nucleotides of anucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:2586-2703 and5264-5379; or the combination of abiotic stress conditions can be acombination of cold stress, osmotic stress and saline stress, and thenucleic acid probe can include at least about 15 nucleotides of anucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:1262-1698 and3956-4388, for example, at least about 15 nucleotides of a nucleotidesequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS: 1262, 1264-1386, 1387-1390,1392-1404, 1406-1444, 1446-1483, 1485-1588, 1590-1608, 1610-1633,1634-1698, 3956, 3958-4078, 4080-4097, 4099-4136, 4138-4175, 4177-4279,4281-4299, 4301-4324, and 4326-4388.

The present invention also relates to a method of expressing aheterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant cell. Such a method can beperformed, for example, by introducing into the plant cell a plantstress-regulated regulatory element operatively linked to theheterologous nucleotide sequence, whereby, upon exposure of the plantcell to a stress condition, the heterologous nucleotide sequence isexpressed in the plant cell. In one embodiment, the stress-regulatedgene regulatory element is any of the sequences described herein thatare capable of altering transcription of an operatively linked sequencein response to an abiotic stress, for example, SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379. Inanother embodiment, stress-regulated gene regulatory element comprises anucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:2704-2855,2857-2928, 2930-2932, 2934-3256, 3258-3271, 3273-3304, 3306-3323,3325-3333, 3335-3485, 3487-3511, 3313-3956, 3958-4078, 4080-4097,4099-4136, 4138-4175, 4177-4279, 4281-4299, 4301-4324, 4326-4414,4416-4552, 4554-4602, and 4604-5379, whereby, upon exposure of the plantcell to stress condition, the heterologous nucleotide sequence isexpressed in the plant cell. The heterologous nucleotide sequence canencode a selectable marker, a diagnostic marker, or a polypeptide thatconfers a desirable trait upon the plant cell, for example, apolypeptide that improves the nutritional value, digestibility orornamental value of the plant cell, or a plant comprising the plantcell.

The present invention additionally relates to a method of identifying astress condition to which a plant cell was exposed by comparing anexpression profile from a test plant suspected of having been exposed toat least one stress condition to an expression profile obtained from areference plant, preferably of the same species, which has been exposedto the suspected stress condition. Such a method can be performed, forexample, by contacting nucleic acid molecules representative ofexpressed polynucleotides in cells of the test plant with at least onenucleic acid probe under conditions suitable for selective hybridizationto a complementary nucleotide sequence, wherein the probe comprises atleast 15 nucleotides of a plant stress-regulated gene, wherein thestress-regulated gene does not have a nucleotide sequence of apolynucleotide as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS: 156, 229, 233, 558,573, 606, 635, 787, 813, 1263, 1386, 1391, 1405, 1445, 1484, 1589, 1609,1634, 1726, 1866, 1918 or 1928, or a nucleotide sequence complementarythereto, whereby detecting selective hybridization of at least onenucleic acid probe, or detecting a change in a level of selectivehybridization as compared to a level of selective hybridization obtainedusing nucleic acid molecules representative of expressed polynucleotidesin cells of a plant known not have been exposed to an abiotic stress,indicates that the test plant has been exposed to an abiotic stress, andwhereby an absence of selective hybridization of at least one nucleicacid probe indicates that the test plant has not been exposed to anabiotic stress. For example, the abiotic stress is cold stress, and theprobe can include at least 15 nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence asset forth in any of SEQ ID NOS: 1-155, 157-228, 230-232, 234-557,559-572, 574-605, 607-634, 636-786, 788-812, 814-1261 or a nucleotidesequence complementary thereto; or the abiotic stress can be a salinestress, and the probe can include at least 15 nucleotides of anucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:2226-2427 or anucleotide sequence complementary thereto; or the abiotic stress can bean osmotic stress, and the probe can include at least 15 nucleotides ofa nucleotide sequence as set forth in two or more of SEQ IDNOS:2428-2585 or a nucleotide sequence complementary thereto.

A method of identifying a stress condition to which a plant cell wasexposed also can be performed, for example, by contacting nucleic acidmolecules expressed in the test plant cell with an array of probesrepresentative of the plant cell genome; detecting a profile ofexpressed nucleic acid molecules characteristic of a stress response,and comparing the expression pattern in the test plant to the expressionpattern obtained from a reference plant thereby identifying the stresscondition to which the plant cell was exposed. The contacting is underconditions that allow for selective hybridization of a nucleic acidmolecule with probes having sufficient complementarity, for example,under stringent hybridization conditions. The profile can becharacteristic of exposure to a single stress condition, for example, anabnormal level of cold, osmotic pressure, or salinity, or can becharacteristic of exposure to more than one stress condition, forexample, cold, increased osmotic pressure and increased salinity. In oneembodiment, the nucleotide sequence of a gene whose expression isdetected is selected from a polynucleotide comprising any of SEQ ID NOS:1-2703. In further embodiments, the nucleotide sequence of a gene thatis expressed in response a particular stress or combination of stressescan comprise a polynucleotide expressed in response to cold stress (SEQID NOS:1-1261), osmotic stress (SEQ ID NOS:2428-2585), saline (salt)stress (SEQ ID NOS:2227-2427), a combination of cold and osmotic stress(SEQ ID NOS:1699-1969), a combination of saline and osmotic stress (SEQID NOS:1970-2226), a combination of osmotic and saline stress (SEQ IDNOS:2586-2703), or a combination of cold, osmotic and saline stress (SEQID NOS:1262-1698).

In another embodiment, the method can be used for determining whether atest plant has been exposed to a combination of abiotic stressconditions. Such a method can be performed, for example, by contactingnucleic acid molecules representative of expressed polynucleotides incells of the test plant with at least one nucleic acid probe underconditions suitable for selective hybridization to a complementarynucleotide sequence, whereby detecting selective hybridization of atleast one nucleic acid probe, or detecting a change in a level ofselective hybridization as compared to a level of selectivehybridization obtained using nucleic acid molecules representative ofexpressed polynucleotides in cells of a plant known not have beenexposed to a combination of stress conditions, indicates that the testplant has been exposed to a combination of abiotic stress conditions,and whereby an absence of selective hybridization of at least onenucleic acid probe indicates that the test plant has not been exposed toa combination of abiotic stress conditions. For example, the combinationof abiotic stress conditions can be a combination of a cold stress andan osmotic stress, and the probe can include at least 15 nucleotides ofa nucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS: 1699-1969, or anucleotide sequence complementary thereto; or the combination of abioticstress conditions can be a combination of a cold stress and a salinestress, and the probe can include at least 15 nucleotides of anucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS: 1970-2226, or anucleotide sequence complementary thereto; or the combination of abioticstress conditions can be a combination of an osmotic stress and a salinestress, and the probe can included at least 15 nucleotides of anucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:2586-2703, or anucleotide sequence complementary thereto; or the combination of abioticstress conditions can be a combination of a cold stress, a saline stressand an osmotic stress, and the probe can include at least 15 nucleotidesof a nucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:1262-1698, ora nucleotide sequence complementary thereto.

The present invention also relates to a method for monitoring apopulation of plants for exposure to a stress condition or combinationof stress conditions. Such a method can be performed, for example, byintroducing into the population of a plants a sentinel plant, whereinsaid sentinel plant is a transgenic plant, which contains plant cellscontaining a stress-regulated regulatory element operatively linked to apolynucleotide encoding a detectable marker; and examining the sentinelplant for expression of the detectable marker, which is indicative ofexposure of the population of plants to a stress condition orcombination of stress conditions. The stress condition or combination ofstress conditions can be any such condition or conditions, particularlyan abiotic stress condition or combination of abiotic stress conditions.The detectable marker can be any reporter molecule that is readily orconveniently detectable, particularly a marker that is visiblydetectable, for example, a luminescent detectable marker such asluciferin, or a fluorescent detectable marker such as a greenfluorescent protein, a yellow fluorescent protein, a cyan fluorescentprotein, a red fluorescent protein, or an enhanced or modified formthereof.

The present invention further relates to a transgenic plant, whichcontains a nucleic acid construct comprising a polynucleotide portion ofplant stress-regulated polynucleotide. In one embodiment, the transgenicplant exhibits altered responsiveness to a stress condition as comparedto a corresponding reference plant not containing the construct. Such atransgenic plant can contain, for example, a construct that disrupts anendogenous stress-regulated gene in the plant, thereby reducing orinhibiting expression of the gene in response to a stress condition.Such a knock-out can increase or decrease tolerance of the plant to astress condition. The transgene also can comprise a coding sequence of aplant stress-regulated gene, which can be operatively linked to aheterologous regulatory element such as a constitutively activeregulatory element, an regulated regulatory element, a tissues specificor phase specific regulatory element, or the like. In anotherembodiment, the transgenic plant contains a nucleic acid constructcomprising a plant stress-regulated regulatory element, which can beoperatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence that can encodea polypeptide. Expression of the heterologous polypeptide can confer adesirable characteristic on the plant, for example, can improve thenutritional or ornamental value of the transgenic plant. In stillanother embodiment, the transgenic plant contains multiple nucleic acidconstructs, which can be multiple copies of the same construct, or canbe two or more different constructs.

The present invention also relates to a plant stress-regulatedregulatory element, which is obtained from a plant stress-regulatedpolynucleotide disclosed herein for example any of SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379;a homolog or ortholog thereof. The invention also provides a method ofidentifying an agent, for example a transcription factor, thatspecifically binds to or activates a plant stress-regulated regulatoryelement. Such a method can be performed, for example, by contacting theregulatory element with a plant cell extract, and identifyingpolypeptides that specifically bind to the regulatory element.Confirmation that the specifically binding polypeptide is atranscription factor can be demonstrated using, for example, thestress-regulated regulatory element operably linked to a reporter gene,and detecting expression of the reporter gene. Control constructscomprising a regulatory element, other than a plant stress-regulatedregulatory element, operatively linked to a reporter molecule can beused to confirm that the transcription factor is specific for the plantstress-regulated regulatory element. A polynucleotide encoding such atranscription factor also can be obtained.

The present invention also relates to a method of using a polynucleotideportion of a plant stress-regulated gene to confer a selective advantageon a plant cell. In one embodiment, such a method is performed byintroducing a plant stress-regulated regulatory element into a plantcell such as those described herein, wherein, upon exposure of the plantcell to a stress condition to which the regulatory element isresponsive, a nucleotide sequence operatively linked to the regulatoryelement is expressed, thereby conferring a selective advantage to plantcell. The operatively linked nucleotide sequence can be, for example, atranscription factor, the expression of which induces the furtherexpression of polynucleotides involved in a stress response, therebyenhancing the response of a plant to the stress condition. In anotherembodiment, a coding sequence of a plant stress-regulated gene asdisclosed herein is introduced into the cell, thereby providing theplant with a selective advantage in response to a stress condition. Instill another embodiment, the method results in the knock-out of a plantstress-regulated gene as disclosed herein in a first population ofplants, thereby providing a selective advantage to a stress condition ina second population of plants.

The invention further relates to a method of identifying an agent thatmodulates the activity of a stress-regulated regulatory element of aplant. In a particular embodiment, is provided a method for identifyingan agent that alters the activity of an abiotic stress responsiveregulatory element comprising contacting the agent or a compositioncontaining an agent to be tested with at least one abiotic stressresponsive regulatory element, preferably selected from the groupconsisting of SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379 (see Table 2), and determining theeffect of the agent on the ability of the regulatory sequence toregulate transcription. In further embodiments, the regulatory elementsare associated with particular stresses or combination of stresses suchas cold stress (SEQ ID NOS:2704-3955), osmotic stress (SEQ IDNOS:5108-5263), saline stress (SEQ ID NOS:4910-5107), a combination ofcold and osmotic stress (SEQ ID NOS:4389-4654), a combination of coldand saline stress (SEQ ID NOS:4655-4909), a combination of osmotic andsaline stress (SEQ ID NOS:5264-5379), or a combination of cold, osmoticand saline stress (SEQ ID NOS:3956-4388). In one embodiment, theregulatory element can be operatively linked to a heterologouspolynucleotide encoding a reporter molecule, and an agent that modulatesthe activity of the stress-regulated regulatory element can beidentified by detecting a change in expression of the reporter moleculedue to contacting the regulatory element with the agent. Such a methodcan be performed in vitro in a plant cell-free system, or in a plantcell in culture or in a plant in situ. In another embodiment, the agentis contacted with a transgenic plant containing an introduced plantstress-regulated regulatory element, and an agent that modulates theactivity of the regulatory element is identified by detecting aphenotypic change in the transgenic plant. The methods of the inventioncan be performed in the presence or absence of the stress condition towhich the particularly regulatory element is responsive.

Another aspect provides a method for identifying an agent that altersabiotic stress responsive polynucleotide expression in a plant or plantcell comprising contacting a plant or plant cell with a test agent;subjecting the plant cell or plant cell to an abiotic stress orcombination of stresses before, during or after contact with the agentto be tested; obtaining an expression profile of the plant or plant celland comparing the expression profile of the plant or plant cell to anexpression profile from a plant or plant cell not exposed to the abioticstress or combination of stresses. In one embodiment, the expressionprofile comprises expression data for at least one nucleotide sequencecomprising any of SEQ ID NOS: 1-5379 (see Tables 1 and 2). In additionalembodiments, the expression profile comprises expression data for atleast one, and preferably two or more sequences associated with aparticular abiotic stress or combination of stresses such as cold stress(SEQ ID NOS:l-1261 and 2704-3955), osmotic stress (SEQ ID NOS:2428-2585and 5108-5263), saline stress (SEQ ID NOS:2227-2427 and 4910-5107), acombination of cold and osmotic stress (SEQ ID NOS:1699-1969 and4389-4654), a combination of cold and saline stress (SEQ IDNOS:1970-2226 and 4655-4909), a combination of osmotic and saline stress(SEQ ID NOS:2586-2703 and 5264-5379), or a combination of cold, osmoticand saline stress (SEQ ID NOS:1262-1698 and 3956-4388).

Still another aspect provides nucleotide probes useful for detecting anabiotic stress response in plants, the probes comprising a nucleotidesequence of at least 15, 25, 50 or 100 nucleotides that hybridizes understringent, preferably highly stringent, conditions to at least onesequence comprising any of SEQ ID NOS: 1-2703. Also provided arenucleotide probes comprising at least 15, 25, 50 or 100 nucleotides inlength that hybridize under stringent, preferably highly stringentconditions, to at least one gene associated with a particular stress orcombination of stresses, for example cold stress, (SEQ ID NOS:1-1261),osmotic stress (SEQ ID NOS:2428-2585), saline stress (SEQ IDNOS:2227-2427), a combination of cold and osmotic stress (SEQ ID NOS:1699-1969), a combination of cold and saline stress (SEQ ID NOS:1970-2226), a combination of osmotic and saline stress (SEQ IDNOS:2586-2703), or a combination of cold, osmotic, and saline stress(SEQ ID NOS:1262-1698).

An additional aspect provides a method for marker-assisted breeding toselect plants having an altered resistance to abiotic stress comprisingobtaining nucleic acid molecules from the plants to be selected;contacting the nucleic acid molecules with one or more probes thatselectively hybridize under stringent, preferably highly stringent,conditions to a nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consistingof SEQ ID NOS:1-2703; detecting the hybridization of the one or moreprobes to the nucleic acid sequences wherein the presence of thehybridization indicates the presence of a gene associated with alteredresistance to abiotic stress; and selecting plants on the basis of thepresence or absence of such hybridization. Marker-assisted selection canalso be accomplished using one or more probes which selectivelyhybridize under stringent, preferably highly stringent conditions, to anucleotide sequence comprising a polynucleotide expressed in responseassociated with a particular stress, for example, a nucleotide sequencecomprising any of SEQ ID NOS:1-1261 (cold stress), SEQ ID NOS:2428-2585(osmotic stress), SEQ ID NOS:2227-2427 (saline stress), SEQ IDNOS:1699-1969 (cold and osmotic stress), SEQ ID NOS:1970-2226 (cold andsaline stress), SEQ ID NOS:2586-2703 (osmotic and saline stress), or SEQID NOS:1262-1698 (cold, osmotic and saline stress). In each casemarker-assisted selection can be accomplished using a probe or probes toa single sequence or multiple sequences. If multiple sequences are usedthey can be used simultaneously or sequentially.

A further aspect provides a method for monitoring a population of plantscomprising providing at least one sentinel plant containing arecombinant polynucleotide comprising a stress responsive regulatorysequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379which is operatively linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding adetectable marker, for example a fluorescent protein. Additional aspectsprovide the use of various regulatory sequences including thoseassociated with cold stress (SEQ ID NOS:2704-3955), osmotic stress (SEQID NOS:5108-5263), saline stress (SEQ ID NOS:4910-5107), cold andosmotic stress (SEQ ID NOS:4389-4654), cold and saline stress (SEQ IDNOS:4655-4909), osmotic and saline stress (SEQ ID NOS:5264-5379), andcold, osmotic and saline stress (SEQ ID NOS:3956-4388), or fragmentsthereof wherein such fragments can alter transcription of an operativelylinked nucleotide sequence in response to an abiotic stress.

A further aspect provides a computer readable medium having storedthereon computer executable instructions for performing a methodcomprising receiving data on gene expression in a test plant of at leastone nucleic acid molecule having at least 70%, preferably at least 80%,more preferably at least 90%, and most preferably at least 95%nucleotide sequence identity to one or more polynucleotide sequences asset forth in any of SEQ ID NOS: 1-2703; and comparing expression datafrom the test plant to expression data for the same polynucleotidesequence or sequences in a plant that has been exposed to at least oneabiotic stress.

Yet a further aspect provides a computer readable medium having storedthereon a data structure comprising, sequence data for at least one, andpreferably a plurality of nucleic acid molecules having at least 70%,preferably at least 80%, more preferably at least 90%, and mostpreferably at least 95% nucleotide sequence identity to a polynucleotidecomprising any of SEQ ID NOS:1-2703, or the complement thereof; and amodule receiving the nucleic acid molecule sequence data which comparesthe nucleic acid molecule sequence data to at least one other nucleicacid sequence.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to clusters of genes that are induced inresponse to one or a combination of abiotic stress conditions. Abioticstress conditions, such as a shortage or excess of solar energy, waterand nutrients, and salinity, high and low temperature, or pollution(e.g., heavy metals), can have a major impact on plant growth and cansignificantly reduce the yield, for example, of cultivars. Underconditions of abiotic stress, the growth of plant cells is inhibited byarresting the cell cycle in late G1, before DNA synthesis, or at theG2/M boundary (see Dudits, Plant Cell Division, Portland Press Research,Monograph; Francis, Dudits, and Inze, eds., 1997; chap. 2, page 21;Bergounioux, Protoplasma 142:127-136, 1988). The identification ofstress-regulated gene clusters, using microarray technology, provides ameans to identify plant stress-regulated genes.

As used herein, the term “cluster,” when used in reference tostress-regulated genes, refers to nucleotide sequences of genes thathave been selected by drawing Venn diagrams, and selecting those genesthat are regulated only by a selected stress condition. In general, acluster of stress-regulated genes includes at least 5, 10, 15, or 20genes, including polynucleotide portions thereof, each of which isresponsive to the same selected stress condition or conditions. Theselected stress condition can be a single stress condition, for example,cold, osmotic stress or salinity stress (see Tables 3-14), or can be aselected combination of stress conditions, for example, cold, osmoticstress and salinity stress (see Tables 15-26). In addition, a clustercan be selected based on specifying that all of the genes arecoordinately regulated, for example, they all start at a low level andare induced to a higher level. However, a cluster of salinestress-regulated genes, for example, that was selected, or coordinateregulation from low to high, also can be decreased in response to coldor mannitol. By varying the parameters used for selecting a cluster ofgene nucleotide sequences, those genes that are expressed in a specificmanner following a stress can be identified.

As used herein in reference to a polynucleotide or polynucleotideportion of a gene or nucleic acid molecule, the term “isolated” means apolynucleotide, polynucleotide portion of a gene, or nucleic acidmolecule that is free of one or both of the nucleotide sequences thatnormally flank the polynucleotide in a genome of a naturally-occurringorganism from which the polynucleotide is derived. The term includes,for example, a polynucleotide or fragment thereof that is incorporatedinto a vector or expression cassette; into an autonomously replicatingplasmid or virus; into the genomic DNA of a prokaryote or eukaryote; orthat exists as a separate molecule independent of other polynucleotides.It also includes a recombinant polynucleotide that is part of a hybridpolynucleotide, for example, one encoding a polypeptide sequence.

The terms “polynucleotide,” “oligonucleotide,” and “nucleic acidsequence” are used interchangeably herein to refer to a polymeric (2 ormore monomers) form of nucleotides of any length, either ribonucleotidesor deoxyribonucleotides. Although nucleotides are usually joined byphosphodiester linkages, the term also includes polymers containingneutral amide backbone linkages composed of aminoethyl glycine units.The terms are used only to refer to the primary structure of themolecule. Thus, the term includes double stranded and single strandedDNA molecules, including a sense strand or an antisense strand, and RNAmolecules as well as genomic DNA, cDNA, mRNA and the like. It will berecognized that such polynucleotides can be modified, for example, byincluding a label such as a radioactive, fluorescent or other tag, bymethylation, by the inclusion of a cap structure, by containing asubstitution of one or more of the naturally occurring nucleotides witha nucleotide analog, by containing an internucleotide modification suchas having uncharged linkages (e.g., methyl phosphonates,phosphotriesters, phosphoramidates, carbamates, or the like), bycontaining a pendant moiety such as a protein (e.g., a nuclease, toxin,antibody, signal peptide, poly-L-lysine, or the like), by containing anintercalator such as acridine or psoralen, by containing a chelator,which can be a metal such as boron, an oxidative metal, or a radioactivemetal, by containing an alkylator, or by having a modified linkage(e.g., an alpha anomeric nucleic acid).

The term “recombinant nucleic acid molecule” refers to a polynucleotideproduced by human intervention. A recombinant nucleic acid molecule cancontain two or more nucleotide sequences that are linked in a mannersuch that the product is not found in a cell in nature. In particular,the two or more nucleotide sequences can be operatively linked and, forexample, can encode a fusion polypeptide, or can comprise a nucleotidesequence and a regulatory element. A recombinant nucleic acid moleculealso can be based on, but different, from a naturally occurringpolynucleotide, for example, a polynucleotide having one or morenucleotide changes such that a first codon, which normally is found inthe polynucleotide, is replaced with a degenerate codon that encodes thesame or a conservative amino acid, or such that a sequence of interestis introduced into the polynucleotide, for example, a restrictionendonuclease recognition site or a splice site, a promoter, a DNAreplication initiation site, or the like.

As used herein, the term “abiotic stress” or “abiotic stress condition”refers to the exposure of a plant, plant cell, or the like, to anon-living (“abiotic”) physical or chemical agent or condition that hasan adverse effect on metabolism, growth, development, propagation and/orsurvival of the plant (collectively “growth”). An abiotic stress can beimposed on a plant due, for example, to an environmental factor such aswater (e.g., flooding, drought, dehydration), anaerobic conditions(e.g., a low level of oxygen), abnormal osmotic conditions, salinity ortemperature (e.g., hot/heat, cold, freezing, frost), a deficiency ofnutrients or exposure to pollutants, or by a hormone, second messengeror other molecule. Anaerobic stress, for example, is due to a reductionin oxygen levels (hypoxia or anoxia) sufficient to produce a stressresponse. A flooding stress can be due to prolonged or transientimmersion of a plant, plant part, tissue or isolated cell in a liquidmedium such as occurs during monsoon, wet season, flash flooding orexcessive irrigation of plants, or the like. A cold stress or heatstress can occur due to a decrease or increase, respectively, in thetemperature from the optimum range of growth temperatures for aparticular plant species. Such optimum growth temperature ranges arereadily determined or known to those skilled in the art. Dehydrationstress can be induced by the loss of water, reduced turgor, or reducedwater content of a cell, tissue, organ or whole plant. Drought stresscan be induced by or associated with the deprivation of water or reducedsupply of water to a cell, tissue, organ or organism. Saline stress(salt stress) can be associated with or induced by a perturbation in theosmotic potential of the intracellular or extracellular environment of acell. Osmotic stress also can be associated with or induced by a change,for example, in the concentration of molecules in the intracellular orextracellular environment of a plant cell, particularly where themolecules cannot be partitioned across the plant cell membrane.

As disclosed herein, clusters of plant stress-regulated genes (Example1; see, also, Tables 1-31) and homologs and orthologs thereof (Table 32)have been identified. Remarkably, several of the stress-regulated genespreviously were known to encode polypeptides having defined cellularfunctions, including roles as transcription factors, enzymes such askinases, and structural proteins such as channel proteins (see Tables29-31). The identification of Arabidopsis stress-regulated genesprovides a means to identify homologous and orthologous genes and genesequences in other plant species using well known procedures andalgorithms based on identity (or homology) to the disclosed sequences.Thus, the invention provides polynucleotide sequences comprising plantstress-regulated genes that are homologs or orthologs, variants, orotherwise substantially similar to the polynucleotides disclosed herein,and having an E value≦1×10⁻⁸, which can be identified, for example, by aBLASTN search using the Arabidopsis polynucleotides of Tables 1 and 2(SEQ ID NOS: 1-5379) as query sequences (see Table 32, on CD).

A polynucleotide sequence of a stress-regulated gene as disclosed hereincan be particularly useful for performing the methods of the inventionon a variety of plants, including but not limited to, corn (Zea mays),Brassica sp. (e.g., B. napus, B. rapa, B. juncea), particularly thoseBrassica species useful as sources of seed oil, alfalfa (Medicagosativa), rice (Oryza sativa), rye (Secale cereale), sorghum (Sorghumbicolor, Sorghum vulgare), millet (e.g., pearl millet (Pennisetumglaucum), proso millet (Panicum miliaceum), foxtail millet (Setariaitalica), finger millet (Eleusine coracana)), sunflower (Helianthusannuus), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), wheat (Triticum aestivum),soybean (Glycine max), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), potato (Solanumtuberosum), peanuts (Arachis hypogaea), cotton (Gossypium barbadense,Gossypium hirsutum), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatus), cassava (Manihotesculenta), coffee (Cofea spp.), coconut (Cocos nucifera), pineapple(Ananas comosus), citrus trees (Citrus spp.), cocoa (Theobroma cacao),tea (Camellia sinensis), banana (Musa spp.), avocado (Persea ultilane),fig (Ficus casica), guava (Psidium guajava), mango (Mangifera indica),olive (Olea europaea), papaya (Carica papaya), cashew (Anacardiumoccidentale), macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia), almond (Prunusamygdalus), sugar beets (Beta vulgaris), sugarcane (Saccharum spp.),oats, duckweed (Lemna), barley, tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum),lettuce (e.g., Lactuca sativa), green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), limabeans (Phaseolus limensis), peas (Lathyrus spp.), and members of thegenus Cucumis such as cucumber (C. sativus), cantaloupe (C.cantalupensis), and musk melon (C. melo). Ornamentals such as azalea(Rhododendron spp.), hydrangea (Macrophylla hydrangea), hibiscus(Hibiscus rosasanensis), roses (Rosa spp.), tulips (Tulipa spp.),daffodils (Narcissus spp.), petunias (Petunia hybrida), carnation(Dianthus caryophyllus), poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), andchrysanthemum are also included. Additional ornamentals within the scopeof the invention include impatiens, Begonia, Pelargonium, Viola,Cyclamen, Verbena, Vinca, Tagetes, Primula, Saint Paulia, Agertum,Amaranthus, Antihirrhinum, Aquilegia, Cineraria, Clover, Cosmo, Cowpea,Dahlia, Datura, Delphinium, Gerbera, Gladiolus, Gloxinia, Hippeastrum,Mesembryanthemum, Salpiglossos, and Zinnia. Conifers that may beemployed in practicing the present invention include, for example, pinessuch as loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), slash pine (Pinus elliotii),ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), andMonterey pine (Pinus radiata), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii);Western hemlock (Tsuga ultilane); Sitka spruce (Picea glauca); redwood(Sequoia sempervirens); true firs such as silver fir (Abies amabilis)and balsam fir (Abies balsamea); and cedars such as Western red cedar(Thuja plicata) and Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis).

Leguminous plants which may be used in the practice of the presentinvention include beans and peas. Beans include guar, locust bean,fenugreek, soybean, garden beans, cowpea, mung bean, lima bean, favabean, lentils, chickpea, etc. Legumes include, but are not limited to,Arachis, e.g., peanuts, Vicia, e.g., crown vetch, hairy vetch, adzukibean, mung bean, and chickpea, Lupinus, e.g., lupine, trifolium,Phaseolus, e.g., common bean and lima bean, Pisum, e.g., field bean,Melilotus, e.g., clover, Medicago, e.g., alfalfa, Lotus, e.g., trefoil,lens, e.g., lentil, and false indigo. Preferred forage and turf grassfor use in the methods of the invention include alfalfa, orchard grass,tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, creeping bent grass, and redtop.

Other plants within the scope of the invention include Acacia, aneth,artichoke, arugula, blackberry, canola, cilantro, clementines, escarole,eucalyptus, fennel, grapefruit, honey dew, jicama, kiwifruit, lemon,lime, mushroom, nut, okra, orange, parsley, persimmon, plantain,pomegranate, poplar, radiata pine, radicchio, Southern pine, sweetgum,tangerine, triticale, vine, yams, apple, pear, quince, cherry, apricot,melon, hemp, buckwheat, grape, raspberry, chenopodium, blueberry,nectarine, peach, plum, strawberry, watermelon, eggplant, pepper,cauliflower, Brassica, e.g., broccoli, cabbage, ultilan sprouts, onion,carrot, leek, beet, broad bean, celery, radish, pumpkin, endive, gourd,garlic, snapbean, spinach, squash, turnip, ultilane, chicory, groundnutand zucchini.

As used herein, the term “substantially similar”, when used herein withrespect to a nucleotide sequence, means a nucleotide sequencecorresponding to a reference nucleotide sequence, wherein thecorresponding sequence encodes a polypeptide or comprises a regulatoryelement having substantially the same structure and function as thepolypeptide encoded by the reference nucleotide sequence, for example,where only changes in amino acids not affecting the polypeptide functionoccur. For purposes of the present invention, a reference (or query)sequence is a polynucleotide sequence as set forth in any of SEQ ID NOS:1-2703 or a polypeptide encoded thereby. Desirably, a substantiallysimilar nucleotide sequence encodes the polypeptide encoded by thereference nucleotide sequence. The percentage of identity between thesubstantially similar nucleotide sequence and the reference nucleotidesequence desirably is at least 60%, more desirably at least 75%,preferably at least 90%, more preferably at least 95%, still morepreferably at least 99% and including 100%. A nucleotide sequence is“substantially similar” to reference nucleotide sequence hybridizes tothe reference nucleotide sequence in 7% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS),0.5 M NaPO₄, 1 mM EDTA at 50° C. with washing in 2×SSC, 0.1% SDS at 50°C., more desirably in 7% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), 0.5 M NaPO₄, 1 mMEDTA at 50° C. with washing in 1×SSC, 0.1% SDS at 50° C. (stringentconditions), more desirably still in 7% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS),0.5 M NaPO₄, 1 mM EDTA at 50° C. with washing in 0.5×SSC, 0.1% SDS at50° C. (high stringency), preferably in 7% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS),0.5 M NaPO₄, 1 mM EDTA at 50° C. with washing in 0.1×SSC, 0.1% SDS at50° C. (very high stringency), more preferably in 7% sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS), 0.5 M NaPO₄, 1 mM EDTA at 50° C. with washing in 0.1×SSC,0.1% SDS at 65° C. (extremely high stringency).

In addition, the term “substantially similar,” when used in reference toa polypeptide sequence, means that an amino acid sequence relative to areference (query) sequence shares at least about 65% amino acid sequenceidentity, particularly at least about 75% amino acid sequence identity,and preferably at least about 85%, more preferably at least about 90%,and most preferably at least about 95% or greater amino acid sequenceidentity. Generally, sequences having an E≦10⁻⁸ are considered to besubstantially similar to a query sequence. Such sequence identity cantake into account conservative amino acid changes that do notsubstantially affect the function of a polypeptide. As such, homologs ororthologs of the Arabidopsis stress-regulated nucleotide sequencesdisclosed herein, variants thereof, and polypeptides substantiallysimilar to the polynucleotide sequence of Arabidopsis stress-regulatedgenes set forth in SEQ ID NOS: 1-5379 are encompassed within the presentinvention and, therefore, useful for practicing the methods of theinvention (see, for example, Table 32, which is on the CD-R filedherewith, and incorporated herein by reference).

Homology or identity is often measured using sequence analysis softwaresuch as the Sequence Analysis Software Package of the Genetics ComputerGroup (University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center, 1710 UniversityAvenue, Madison, Wis. 53705). Such software matches similar sequences byassigning degrees of homology to various deletions, substitutions andother modifications. The terms “homology” and “identity,” when usedherein in the context of two or more nucleic acids or polypeptidesequences, refer to two or more sequences or subsequences that are thesame or have a specified percentage of amino acid residues or ofnucleotides that are the same when compared and aligned for maximumcorrespondence over a comparison window or designated region as measuredusing any number of sequence comparison algorithms or by manualalignment and visual inspection.

For sequence comparison, typically one sequence acts as a referencesequence, to which test sequences are compared. When using a sequencecomparison algorithm, test and reference sequences are entered into acomputer, subsequence coordinates are designated, if necessary, andsequence algorithm program parameters are designated. Default programparameters can be used, or alternative parameters can be designated. Thesequence comparison algorithm then calculates the percent sequenceidentities for the test sequences relative to the reference sequence,based on the program parameters.

The term “comparison window” is used broadly herein to include referenceto a segment of any one of the number of contiguous positions, forexample, about 20 to 600 positions, for example, amino acid ornucleotide position, usually about 50 to about 200 positions, moreusually about 100 to about 150 positions, in which a sequence may becompared to a reference sequence of the same number of contiguouspositions after the two sequences are optimally aligned. Methods ofalignment of sequence for comparison are well-known in the art. Optimalalignment of sequences for comparison can be conducted, for example, bythe local homology algorithm of Smith and Waterman (Adv. Appl. Math.2:482, 1981), by the homology alignment algorithm of Needleman andWunsch (J. Mol. Biol. 48:443, 1970), by the search for similarity methodof Person and Lipman (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 85:2444, 1988), eachof which is incorporated herein by reference; by computerizedimplementations of these algorithms (GAP, BESTFIT, FASTA, and TFASTA inthe Wisconsin Genetics Software Package, Genetics Computer Group, 575Science Dr., Madison, Wis.); or by manual alignment and visualinspection. Other algorithms for determining homology or identityinclude, for example, in addition to a BLAST program (Basic LocalAlignment Search Tool at the National Center for BiologicalInformation), ALIGN, AMAS (Analysis of Multiply Aligned Sequences), AMPS(Protein Multiple Sequence Alignment), ASSET (Aligned SegmentStatistical Evaluation Tool), BANDS, BESTSCOR, BIOSCAN (BiologicalSequence Comparative Analysis Node), BLIMPS (BLocks IMProved Searcher),FASTA, Intervals & Points, BMB, CLUSTAL V, CLUSTAL W, CONSENSUS,LCONSENSUS, WCONSENSUS, Smith-Waterman algorithm, DARWIN, Las Vegasalgorithm, FNAT (Forced Nucleotide Alignment Tool), Framealign,Framesearch, DYNAMIC, FILTER, FSAP (Fristensky Sequence AnalysisPackage), GAP (Global Alignment Program), GENAL, GIBBS, GenQuest, ISSC(Sensitive Sequence Comparison), LALIGN (Local Sequence Alignment), LCP(Local Content Program), MACAW (Multiple Alignment Construction &Analysis Workbench), MAP (Multiple Alignment Program), MBLKP, MBLKN,PIMA (Pattern-Induced Multi-sequence Alignment), SAGA (SequenceAlignment by Genetic Algorithm) and WHAT-IF. Such alignment programs canalso be used to screen genome databases to identify polynucleotidesequences having substantially identical sequences.

A number of genome databases are available for comparison. Severaldatabases containing genomic information annotated with some functionalinformation are maintained by different organizations, and areaccessible via the internet, for example, at world wide web addresses(url's) “wwwtigr.org/tdb”; “genetics.wisc.edu”;“genome-www.stanford.edu/˜ball”; “hiv-web.lanl.gov”; “ncbi.nlm.nih.gov”;“ebi.ac.uk”; “Pasteur.fr/other/biology”; and “genome.wi.mit.edu”.

In particular, the BLAST and BLAST 2.0 algorithms using defaultparameters are particularly useful for identifying polynucleotide andpolypeptides encompassed within the present invention (Altschul et al.(Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389-3402, 1977; J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-410, 1990,each of which is incorporated herein by reference). Software forperforming BLAST analyses is publicly available through the NationalCenter for Biotechnology Information (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Thisalgorithm involves first identifying high scoring sequence pairs (HSPs)by identifying short words of length W in the query sequence, whicheither match or satisfy some positive-valued threshold score T whenaligned with a word of the same length in a database sequence. T isreferred to as the neighborhood word score threshold (Altschul et al.,supra, 1977, 1990). These initial neighborhood word hits act as seedsfor initiating searches to find longer HSPs containing them. The wordhits are extended in both directions along each sequence for as far asthe cumulative alignment score can be increased. Cumulative scores arecalculated using, for nucleotide sequences, the parameters M (rewardscore for a pair of matching residues; always >0). For amino acidsequences, a scoring matrix is used to calculate the cumulative score.Extension of the word hits in each direction are halted when: thecumulative alignment score falls off by the quantity X from its maximumachieved value; the cumulative score goes to zero or below, due to theaccumulation of one or more negative-scoring residue alignments; or theend of either sequence is reached. The BLAST algorithm parameters W, T,and X determine the sensitivity and speed of the alignment. The BLASTNprogram (for nucleotide sequences) uses as defaults a wordlength (W) of11, an expectation (E) of 10, M=5, N=4 and a comparison of both strands.For amino acid sequences, the BLASTP program uses as defaults awordlength of 3, and expectations (E) of 10, and the BLOSUM62 scoringmatrix (see Henikoff and Henikoff, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 89:10915,1989) alignments (B) of 50, expectation (E) of 10, M=5, N=4, and acomparison of both strands.

The BLAST algorithm also performs a statistical analysis of thesimilarity between two sequences (see, for example, Karlin and Altschul,Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 90:5873, 1993, which is incorporated hereinby reference). One measure of similarity provided by BLAST algorithm isthe smallest sum probability (P(N)), which provides an indication of theprobability by which a match between two nucleotide or amino acidsequences would occur by chance. For example, a nucleic acid isconsidered similar to a references sequence if the smallest sumprobability in a comparison of the test nucleic acid to the referencenucleic acid is less than about 0.2, more preferably less than about0.01, and most preferably less than about 0.001. Significantly, uponidentifying polynucleotides that are substantially similar to those ofSEQ ID NOS: 1-5379, the identified polynucleotides can be used as querysequences in a BLAST search to identify polynucleotides and polypeptidessubstantially similar thereto.

It should be noted that the nucleotide sequences set forth as SEQ IDNOS: 1-2703 comprise coding sequences, whereas the nucleotide sequencesset forth as SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379 comprise regulatory sequences. Inaddition, the coding sequences and regulatory sequences are related inthat, for example, SEQ ID NO: 1 is the coding sequence of a plant coldregulated gene having a 5′ upstream (regulatory) sequence set forth asSEQ ID NO:2704 (see Table 2). Similarly, SEQ ID NO:2705 comprises aregulatory region of SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:2706 comprises a regulatoryregion of SEQ ID NO:3, and so forth as shown in Table 2. As such,reference herein, for example, to a “polynucleotide comprising SEQ IDNO: 1” can, unless indicated otherwise, include at least SEQ ID NO:2704.In some cases, the entire coding region of a plant stress regulated geneor the 5′ upstream sequence has not yet been determined (see, forexample, SEQ ID NO:43 in Table 3, where “none”indicates that 5′ upstreamregulatory sequences have not yet been determined). However, thedetermination of a complete coding sequence where only a portion isknown or of regulatory sequences where a portion of the coding sequenceis known can be made using methods as disclosed herein or otherwiseknown in the art.

In one embodiment, protein and nucleic acid sequence homologies areevaluated using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (“BLAST”). Inparticular, five specific BLAST programs are used to perform thefollowing task:

(1) BLASTP and BLAST3 compare an amino acid query sequence against aprotein sequence database;

(2) BLASTN compares a nucleotide query sequence against a nucleotidesequence database;

(3) BLASTX compares the six-frame conceptual translation products of aquery nucleotide sequence (both strands) against a protein sequencedatabase;

(4) TBLASTN compares a query protein sequence against a nucleotidesequence database translated in all six reading frames (both strands);and

(5) TBLASTX compares the six-frame translations of a nucleotide querysequence against the six-frame translations of a nucleotide sequencedatabase.

The BLAST programs identify homologous sequences by identifying similarsegments, which are referred to herein as “high-scoring segment pairs,”between a query amino or nucleic acid sequence and a test sequence whichis preferably obtained from a protein or nucleic acid sequence database.High-scoring segment pairs are preferably identified (i.e., aligned) bymeans of a scoring matrix, many of which are known in the art.Preferably, the scoring matrix used is the BLOSUM62 matrix (Gonnet etal., Science 256:1443-1445, 1992; Henikoff and Henikoff, Proteins17:49-61, 1993, each of which is incorporated herein by reference). Lesspreferably, the PAM or PAM250 matrices may also be used (Schwartz andDayhoff, eds., “Matrices for Detecting Distance Relationships: Atlas ofProtein Sequence and Structure” (Washington, National BiomedicalResearch Foundation 1978)). BLAST programs are accessible through theU.S. National Library of Medicine, for example, on the world wide web ataddress (url) “ncbi.nlm.nih.gov”.

The parameters used with the above algorithms may be adapted dependingon the sequence length and degree of homology studied. In someembodiments, the parameters may be the default parameters used by thealgorithms in the absence of instructions from the user.

The term “substantially similar” also is used in reference to acomparison of expression profiles of nucleotide sequences, wherein adetermination that an expression profile characteristic of a stressresponse is substantially similar to the profile of nucleic acidmolecules expressed in a plant cell being examined (“test plant”) isindicative of exposure of the test plant cell to one or a combination ofabiotic stress conditions. When used in reference to such a comparisonof expression profiles, the term “substantially similar” means that thatthe individual nucleotide sequences in the test plant cell profile arealtered in the same manner as the corresponding nucleotide sequences inthe expression profile characteristic of the stress response.

By way of example, where exposure to saline results in an increasedexpression of nucleotide sequences A, B and C, and a decreasedexpression of nucleotide sequences D and E, as indicated by theexpression profile characteristic of a saline stress response, adetermination that corresponding nucleotide sequences A, B and C in thetest plant cell are increased and that nucleotides sequences D and E aredecreased is indicative of exposure of the test plant cell to a salinestress condition. It should be recognized that, where, for example, onlynucleotide sequences A, B, D and E are examined in the test plant cell,an increase in A and B and a decrease in D and E expression of the testplant cells is considered to be substantially similar to the expressionprofile characteristic of a saline stress condition and, therefore, isindicative of exposure of the plant cell to a saline stress condition.Similarly, where the levels of expression of the nucleotide sequencesexamined in a test plant are altered in the same manner, i.e., areincreased or are decreased, as that observed in an expression profilecharacteristic of a particular stress response, the absolute levels ofexpression may vary, for example, two-fold, five-fold, ten-fold, or thelike. Nevertheless, the expression profile of the test plant cell isconsidered to be substantially similar to the expression profilecharacteristic of the particular stress response and, therefore,indicative of exposure of the plant cell to the stress condition.

As disclosed herein, clusters of stress-regulated genes (and theirproducts), some of which also have been described as having cellularfunctions such as enzymatic activity or roles as transcription factors,are involved in the response of plant cells to various abiotic stresses(see Tables 29-31; see, also, Tables 1 and 32). As such, thepolynucleotide sequences comprising the genes in a cluster likely sharecommon stress-regulated regulatory elements, including, for example,cold-regulated regulatory elements (SEQ ID NOS:2704-3955),salinity-regulated regulatory elements (SEQ ID NOS:4910-5107, andosmotic pressure-regulated regulatory elements (SEQ ID NO:5108-5263), aswell as regulatory elements that are responsive to a combination ofstress conditions, but not to any of the individual stress conditions,alone (SEQ ID NOS:3956-4909 and 5263-5379). The identification of suchclusters of genes thus provides a means to identify the stress-regulatedregulatory elements that control the level of expression of these genes.

As used herein, the term “plant stress-regulated gene” means apolynucleotide sequence of a plant, the transcription of which isaltered in response to exposure to a stress condition, and theregulatory elements linked to such a polynucleotide sequence andinvolved in the stress response, which can be induction or repression.In general, plant stress gene regulatory elements are contained within asequence including approximately two kilobases upstream (5′) of thetranscription or translation start site and two kilobases downstream(3′) of the transcription or translation termination site. In theabsence of an abiotic stress condition, the stress-regulated gene cannormally be unexpressed in the cells, can be expressed at a basal level,which is induced to a higher level in response to the stress condition,or can be expressed at a level that is reduced (decreased) in responseto the stress condition. The coding region of a plant stress-regulatedgene encodes a stress-regulated polypeptide, and also can be the basisfor expression of a functional RNA molecule such as an antisensemolecule or ribozyme. A stress-regulated polypeptide can have anadaptive effect on a plant, thereby allowing the plant to bettertolerate stress conditions; or can have a maladaptive effect, therebydecreasing the ability of the plant to tolerate the stress conditions.

The present invention provides an isolated plant stress-regulatedregulatory element, which regulates expression of an operatively linkednucleotide sequence in a plant in response a stress condition. Asdisclosed herein, a plant stress-regulated regulatory element can beisolated from a polynucleotide sequence of a plant stress-regulated genecomprising a nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOS: 1-2703, forexample any of SEQ ID NOS:2704-5379 (see Table 2). It is recognized thatcertain of the polynucleotides set forth as SEQ ID NOS: 1-5379previously have been described as being involved in a stress-regulatedresponse in plants, including SEQ ID NOS:156, 229, 233, 558, 573, 606,625, 635, 787, 813, 1263, 1386, 1391, 1405, 1445, 1484, 1589, 1609,1634, 1726, 1866, 1918, and 1928 and, therefore, are not encompassed, inwhole or in part, within the compositions of the invention, and areencompassed within only certain particular methods of the invention, forexample, methods of making a transgenic plant that is resistant to twoor more stress conditions, since, even where such a gene was known to beexpressed in response to a single stress condition such as cold orsaline (e.g., SEQ ID NO:1263), it was not known prior to the presentdisclosure that any of these genes was responsive to a combination ofstress conditions (for example, a combination of cold and osmotic stressfor SEQ ID NOS: 1726, 1866, 1918, and 1928; or a combination of cold,osmotic and saline stress for SEQ ID NOS:1263, 1386, 1391, 1405, 1445,1484, 1589, 1609, and 1634).

Methods for identifying and isolating the stress-regulated regulatoryelement from the disclosed polynucleotides, or genomic DNA clonescorresponding thereto, are well known in the art. For example, methodsof making deletion constructs or linker-scanner constructs can be usedto identify nucleotide sequences that are responsive to a stresscondition. Generally, such constructs include a reporter geneoperatively linked to the sequence to be examined for regulatoryactivity. By performing such assays, a plant stress-regulated regulatoryelement can be defined within a sequence of about 500 nucleotides orfewer, generally at least about 200 nucleotides or fewer, particularlyabout 50 to 100 nucleotides, and more particularly at least about 20nucleotides or fewer. Preferably the minimal (core) sequence requiredfor regulating a stress response of a plant is identified.

The nucleotide sequences of the genes of a cluster also can be examinedusing a homology search engine such as described herein to identifysequences of conserved identity, particularly in the nucleotide sequenceupstream of the transcription start site. Since all of the genes in acluster as disclosed are induced in response to a particular stresscondition or a particular combination of stress conditions, some or allof the nucleotide sequences can share conserved stress-regulatedregulatory elements. By performing such a homology search, putativestress-regulated regulatory elements can be identified. The ability ofsuch identified sequences to function as a plant stress-regulatedregulatory element can be confirmed, for example, by operatively linkingthe sequence to a reporter gene and assaying the construct forresponsiveness to a stress condition.

As used herein, the term “regulatory element” means a nucleotidesequence that, when operatively linked to a coding region of a gene,effects transcription of the coding region such that a ribonucleic acid(RNA) molecule is transcribed from the coding region. A regulatoryelement generally can increase or decrease the amount of transcriptionof a nucleotide sequence, for example, a coding sequence, operativelylinked to the element with respect to the level at which the nucleotidesequence would be transcribed absent the regulatory element. Regulatoryelements are well known in the art and include promoters, enhancers,silencers, inactivated silencer intron sequences, 3′-untranslated or5′-untranslated sequences of transcribed sequence, for example, a poly-Asignal sequence, or other protein or RNA stabilizing elements, or othergene expression control elements known to regulate gene expression orthe amount of expression of a gene product. A regulatory element can beisolated from a naturally occurring genomic DNA sequence or can besynthetic, for example, a synthetic promoter.

Regulatory elements can be constitutively expressed regulatory element,which maintain gene expression at a relative level of activity (basallevel), or can be regulated regulatory elements. Constitutivelyexpressed regulatory elements can be expressed in any cell type, or canbe tissue specific, which are expressed only in particular cell types,phase specific, which are expressed only during particular developmentalor growth stages of a plant cell, or the like. A regulatory element suchas a tissue specific or phase specific regulatory element or aninducible regulatory element useful in constructing a recombinantpolynucleotide or in a practicing a method of the invention can be aregulatory element that generally, in nature, is found in a plantgenome. However, the regulatory element also can be from an organismother than a plant, including, for example, from a plant virus, ananimal virus, or a cell from an animal or other multicellular organism.

A regulatory element useful for practicing method of the present is apromoter element. Useful promoters include, but are not limited to,constitutive, inducible, temporally regulated, developmentallyregulated, spatially-regulated, chemically regulated, stress-responsive,tissue-specific, viral and synthetic promoters. Promoter sequences areknown to be strong or weak. A strong promoter provides for a high levelof gene expression, whereas a weak promoter provides for a very lowlevel of gene expression. An inducible promoter is a promoter thatprovides for the turning on and off of gene expression in response to anexogenously added agent, or to an environmental or developmentalstimulus. A bacterial promoter such as the Ptac promoter can be inducedto varying levels of gene expression depending on the level ofisothiopropylgalactoside added to the transformed bacterial cells. Anisolated promoter sequence that is a strong promoter for heterologousnucleic acid is advantageous because it provides for a sufficient levelof gene expression to allow for easy detection and selection oftransformed cells and provides for a high level of gene expression whendesired.

Within a plant promoter region there are several domains that arenecessary for full function of the promoter. The first of these domainslies immediately upstream of the structural gene and forms the “corepromoter region” containing consensus sequences, normally 70 base pairsimmediately upstream of the gene. The core promoter region contains thecharacteristic CAAT and TATA boxes plus surrounding sequences, andrepresents a transcription initiation sequence that defines thetranscription start point for the structural gene.

The presence of the core promoter region defines a sequence as being apromoter: if the region is absent, the promoter is non-functional. Thecore promoter region, however, is insufficient to provide full promoteractivity. A series of regulatory sequences upstream of the coreconstitute the remainder of the promoter. These regulatory sequencesdetermine expression level, the spatial and temporal pattern ofexpression and, for an important subset of promoters, expression underinductive conditions (regulation by external factors such as light,temperature, chemicals, hormones).

To define a minimal promoter region, a DNA segment representing thepromoter region is removed from the 5′ region of the gene of interestand operably linked to the coding sequence of a marker (reporter) geneby recombinant DNA techniques well known to the art. The reporter geneis operably linked downstream of the promoter, so that transcriptsinitiating at the promoter proceed through the reporter gene. Reportergenes generally encode proteins which are easily measured, including,but not limited to, chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT),beta-glucuronidase (GUS), green fluorescent protein (GFP),

-galactosidase (

-GAL), and luciferase.

The construct containing the reporter gene under the control of thepromoter is then introduced into an appropriate cell type bytransfection techniques well known to the art. To assay for the reporterprotein, cell lysates are prepared and appropriate assays, which arewell known in the art, for the reporter protein are performed. Forexample, if CAT were the reporter gene of choice, the lysates from cellstransfected with constructs containing CAT under the control of apromoter under study are mixed with isotopically labeled chloramphenicoland acetyl-coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA). The CAT enzyme transfers the acetylgroup from acetyl-CoA to the 2-position or 3-position ofchloramphenicol. The reaction is monitored by thin layer chromatography,which separates acetylated chloramphenicol from unreacted material. Thereaction products are then visualized by autoradiography.

The level of enzyme activity corresponds to the amount of enzyme thatwas made, which in turn reveals the level of expression from thepromoter of interest. This level of expression can be compared to otherpromoters to determine the relative strength of the promoter understudy. In order to be sure that the level of expression is determined bythe promoter, rather than by the stability of the mRNA, the level of thereporter mRNA can be measured directly, for example, by northern blotanalysis.

Once activity is detected, mutational and/or deletional analyses may beemployed to determine the minimal region and/or sequences required toinitiate transcription. Thus, sequences can be deleted at the 5′ end ofthe promoter region and/or at the 3′ end of the promoter region, andnucleotide substitutions introduced. These constructs are thenintroduced to cells and their activity determined.

The choice of promoter will vary depending on the temporal and spatialrequirements for expression, and also depending on the target species.In some cases, expression in multiple tissues is desirable. While inothers, tissue-specific, e.g., leaf-specific, seed-specific,petal-specific, anther-specific, or pith-specific, expression isdesirable. Although many promoters from dicotyledons have been shown tobe operational in monocotyledons and vice versa, ideally dicotyledonouspromoters are selected for expression in dicotyledons, andmonocotyledonous promoters for expression in monocotyledons. There is,however, no restriction to the origin or source of a selected promoter.It is sufficient that the promoters are operational in driving theexpression of a desired nucleotide sequence in the particular cell.

A range of naturally-occurring promoters are known to be operative inplants and have been used to drive the expression of heterologous (bothforeign and endogenous) genes and nucleotide sequences in plants: forexample, the constitutive 35S cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) promoter,the ripening-enhanced tomato polygalacturonase promoter (Bird et al.,1988), the E8 promoter (Diekman and Fischer, 1988) and the fruitspecific 2A1 promoter (Pear et al., 1989). Many other promoters, e.g.,U2 and U5 snRNA promoters from maize, the promoter from alcoholdehydrogenase, the Z4 promoter from a gene encoding the Z4 22 kD zeinprotein, the Z10 promoter from a gene encoding a 10 kD zein protein, aZ27 promoter from a gene encoding a 27 kD zein protein, the A20 promoterfrom the gene encoding a 19 kD zein protein, inducible promoters, suchas the light inducible promoter derived from the pea rbcS gene and theactin promoter from rice, e.g., the actin 2 promoter (WO 00/70067); seedspecific promoters, such as the phaseolin promoter from beans, may alsobe used. The nucleotide sequences of the stress-regulated genes of thisinvention can also be expressed under the regulation of promoters thatare chemically regulated. This enables the nucleic acid sequence orencoded polypeptide to be synthesized only when the crop plants aretreated with the inducing chemicals. Chemical induction of geneexpression is detailed in EP 0 332 104 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,614,395.

In some instances it may be desirable to link a constitutive promoter toa polynucleotide comprising a stress regulated gene of the invention.Examples of some constitutive promoters include the rice actin 1 (Wanget al., 1992; U.S. Pat. No. 5,641,876), CaMV 35S (Odell et al., 1985),CaMV 19S (Lawton et al., 1987), nos, Adh, sucrose synthase; and theubiquitin promoters.

In other situations it may be desirable to limit expression ofstress-related sequences to specific tissues or stages of development.As used herein, the term “tissue specific or phase specific regulatoryelement” means a nucleotide sequence that effects transcription in onlyone or a few cell types, or only during one or a few stages of the lifecycle of a plant, for example, only for a period of time during aparticular stage of growth, development or differentiation. The terms“tissue specific” and “phase specific” are used together herein inreferring to a regulatory element because a single regulatory elementcan have characteristics of both types of regulatory elements. Forexample, a regulatory element active only during a particular stage ofplant development also can be expressed only in one or a few types ofcells in the plant during the particular stage of development. As such,any attempt to classify such regulatory elements as tissue specific oras phase specific can be difficult. Accordingly, unless indicatedotherwise, all regulatory elements having the characteristic of a tissuespecific regulatory element, or a phase specific regulatory element, orboth are considered together for purposes of the present invention.

Examples of tissue specific promoters which have been described includethe lectin (Vodkin, 1983; Lindstrom et al., 1990) corn alcoholdehydrogenase 1 (Vogel et al., 1989; Dennis et al., 1984), corn lightharvesting complex (Simpson, 1986; Bansal et al., 1992), corn heat shockprotein (Odell et al., 1985), pea small subunit RuBP carboxylase(Poulsen et al., 1986), Ti plasmid mannopine synthase and Ti plasmidnopaline synthase (Langridge et al., 1989), petunia chalcone isomerase(vanTunen et al., 1988), bean glycine rich protein 1 (Keller et al.,1989), truncated CaMV 35s (Odell et al., 1985), potato patatin (Wenzleret al., 1989), root cell (Yamamoto et al., 1990), maize zein (Reina etal., 1990; Kriz et al., 1987; Wandelt et al., 1989; Langridge et al.,1983; Reina et al., 1990), globulin-1 (Belanger et al., 1991),α-tubulin, cab (Sullivan et al., 1989), PEPCase (Hudspeth & Grula,1989), R gene complex-associated promoters (Chandler et al., 1989),histone, and chalcone synthase promoters (Franken et al., 1991). Tissuespecific enhancers are described by Fromm et al. (1989).

Several other tissue-specific regulated genes and/or promoters have beenreported in plants, including genes encoding seed storage proteins suchas napin, cruciferin, beta-conglycinin, and phaseolin, zein or oil bodyproteins such as oleosin, genes involved in fatty acid biosynthesis,including acyl carrier protein, stearoyl-ACP desaturase, fatty aciddesaturases (fad 2-1), and other genes expressed during embryonicdevelopment such as Bce4 (see, for example, EP 255378 and Kridl et al.,1991). Particularly useful for seed-specific expression is the peavicilin promoter (Czako et al., 1992). (See also U.S. Pat. No.5,625,136, which is incorporated herein by reference.) Other usefulpromoters for expression in mature leaves are those that are switched onat the onset of senescence, such as the SAG promoter from Arabidopsis(Gan et al., 1995).

A class of fruit-specific promoters expressed at or during antithesisthrough fruit development, at least until the beginning of ripening, isdiscussed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,943,674. cDNA clones that arepreferentially expressed in cotton fiber have been isolated (John etal., 1992). cDNA clones from tomato displaying differential expressionduring fruit development have been isolated and characterized (Manssonet al., 1985, Slater et al., 1985). The promoter for polygalacturonasegene is active in fruit ripening. The polygalacturonase gene isdescribed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,535,060, 4,769,061, 4,801,590, and5,107,065, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.

Other examples of tissue-specific promoters include those that directexpression in leaf cells following damage to the leaf (for example, fromchewing insects), in tubers (for example, patatin gene promoter), and infiber cells (an example of a developmentally-regulated fiber cellprotein is E6 (John et al., 1992). The E6 gene is most active in fiber,although low levels of transcripts are found in leaf, ovule and flower.

Additional tissue specific or phase specific regulatory elementsinclude, for example, the AGL8/FRUITFULL regulatory element, which isactivated upon floral induction (Hempel et al., Development124:3845-3853, 1997, which is incorporated herein by reference); rootspecific regulatory elements such as the regulatory elements from theRCP1 gene and the LRP1 gene (Tsugeki and Fedoroff, Proc. Natl. Acad.,USA 96:12941-12946, 1999; Smith and Fedoroff, Plant Cell 7:735-745,1995, each of which is incorporated herein by reference); flowerspecific regulatory elements such as the regulatory elements from theLEAFY gene and the APETELA1 gene (Blazquez et al., Development124:3835-3844, 1997, which is incorporated herein by reference; Hempelet al., supra, 1997); seed specific regulatory elements such as theregulatory element from the oleosin gene (Plant et al., Plant Mol. Biol.25:193-205, 1994, which is incorporated herein by reference), anddehiscence zone specific regulatory element. Additional tissue specificor phase specific regulatory elements include the Zn13 promoter, whichis a pollen specific promoter (Hamilton et al., Plant Mol. Biol.18:211-218, 1992, which is incorporated herein by reference); theUNUSUAL FLORAL ORGANS (UFO) promoter, which is active in apical shootmeristem; the promoter active in shoot meristems (Atanassova et al.,Plant J. 2:291, 1992, which is incorporated herein by reference), thecdc2a promoter and cyc07 promoter (see, for example, Ito et al., PlantMol. Biol. 24:863, 1994; Martinez et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA89:7360, 1992; Medford et al., Plant Cell 3:359, 1991; Terada et al.,Plant J. 3:241, 1993; Wissenbach et al., Plant J. 4:411, 1993, each ofwhich is incorporated herein by reference); the promoter of the APETELA3gene, which is active in floral meristems (Jack et al., Cell 76:703,1994, which is incorporated herein by reference; Hempel et al., supra,1997); a promoter of an agamous-like (AGL) family member, for example,AGL8, which is active in shoot meristem upon the transition to flowering(Hempel et al., supra, 1997); floral abscission zone promoters;L1-specific promoters; and the like.

The tissue-specificity of some “tissue-specific” promoters may not beabsolute and may be tested by one skilled in the art using thediphtheria toxin sequence. One can also achieve tissue-specificexpression with “leaky” expression by a combination of differenttissue-specific promoters (Beals et al., 1997). Other tissue-specificpromoters can be isolated by one skilled in the art (see U.S. Pat. No.5,589,379). Several inducible promoters (“gene switches”) have beenreported, many of which one described in the review by Gatz (1996) andGatz (1997). These include tetracycline repressor system, Lac repressorsystem, copper inducible systems, salicylate inducible systems (such asthe PR1a system), glucocorticoid (Aoyama et al., 1997) and ecdysoneinducible systems. Also included are the benzene sulphonamide (U.S. Pat.No. 5,364,780) and alcohol (WO 97/06269 and WO 97/06268) induciblesystems and glutathione S-transferase promoters.

In some instances it might be desirable to inhibit expression of anative DNA sequence within a plant's tissues to achieve a desiredphenotype. In this case, such inhibition might be accomplished withtransformation of the plant to comprise a constitutive,tissue-independent promoter operably linked to an antisense nucleotidesequence, such that constitutive expression of the antisense sequenceproduces an RNA transcript that interferes with translation of the mRNAof the native DNA sequence.

Inducible regulatory elements also are useful for purposes of thepresent invention. As used herein, the term “inducible regulatoryelement” means a regulatory element that, when exposed to an inducingagent, effects an increased level of transcription of a nucleotidesequence to which it is operatively linked as compared to the level oftranscription, if any, in the absence of an inducing agent. Inducibleregulatory elements can be those that have no basal or constitutiveactivity and only effect transcription upon exposure to an inducingagent, or those that effect a basal or constitutive level oftranscription, which is increased upon exposure to an inducing agent.Inducible regulatory elements that effect a basal or constitutive levelof expression generally are useful in a method or composition of theinvention where the induced level of transcription is substantiallygreater than the basal or constitutive level of expression, for example,at least about two-fold greater, or at least about five-fold greater.Particularly useful inducible regulatory elements do not have a basal orconstitutive activity, or increase the level of transcription at leastabout ten-fold greater than a basal or constitutive level oftranscription associated with the regulatory element.

Inducible promoters that have been described include the ABA- andturgor-inducible promoters, the promoter of the auxin-binding proteingene (Schwob et al., 1993), the UDP glucose flavonoidglycosyl-transferase gene promoter (Ralston et al., 1988), the MPIproteinase inhibitor promoter (Cordero et al., 1994), and theglyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene promoter (Kohler et al.,1995; Quigley et al., 1989; Martinez et al., 1989).

The term “inducing agent” is used to refer to a chemical, biological orphysical agent or environmental condition that effects transcriptionfrom an inducible regulatory element. In response to exposure to aninducing agent, transcription from the inducible regulatory elementgenerally is initiated de novo or is increased above a basal orconstitutive level of expression. Such induction can be identified usingthe methods disclosed herein, including detecting an increased level ofRNA transcribed from a nucleotide sequence operatively linked to theregulatory element, increased expression of a polypeptide encoded by thenucleotide sequence, or a phenotype conferred by expression of theencoded polypeptide.

An inducing agent useful in a method of the invention is selected basedor the particular inducible regulatory element. For example, theinducible regulatory element can be a metallothionein regulatoryelement, a copper inducible regulatory element or a tetracyclineinducible regulatory element, the transcription from which can beeffected in response to metal ions, copper or tetracycline, respectively(Furst et al., Cell 55:705-717, 1988; Mett et al., Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci., USA 90:4567-4571, 1993; Gatz et al., Plant J. 2:397-404, 1992;Roder et al., Mol. Gen. Genet. 243:32-38, 1994, each of which isincorporated herein by reference). The inducible regulatory element alsocan be an ecdysone regulatory element or a glucocorticoid regulatoryelement, the transcription from which can be effected in response toecdysone or other steroid (Christopherson et al., Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci., USA 89:6314-6318, 1992; Schena et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA88:10421-10425, 1991, each of which is incorporated herein byreference). In addition, the regulatory element can be a cold responsiveregulatory element or a heat shock regulatory element, the transcriptionof which can be effected in response to exposure to cold or heat,respectively (Takahashi et al., Plant Physiol. 99:383-390, 1992, whichis incorporated herein by reference). Additional regulatory elementsuseful in the methods or compositions of the invention include, forexample, the spinach nitrite reductase gene regulatory element (Back etal., Plant Mol. Biol. 17:9, 1991, which is incorporated herein byreference); a light inducible regulatory element (Feinbaum et al., Mol.Gen. Genet. 226:449, 1991; Lam and Chua, Science 248:471, 1990, each ofwhich is incorporated herein by reference), a plant hormone inducibleregulatory element (Yamaguchi-Shinozaki et al., Plant Mol. Biol. 15:905,1990; Kares et al., Plant Mol. Biol. 15:225, 1990, each of which isincorporated herein by reference), and the like.

An inducible regulatory element also can be a plant stress-regulatedregulatory element of the invention. In addition to the known stressconditions that specifically induce or repress expression from suchelements, the present invention provides methods of identifying agentsthat mimic a stress condition. Accordingly, such stress mimics areconsidered inducing or repressing agents with respect to a plantstress-regulated regulatory element. In addition, a recombinantpolypeptide comprising a zinc finger domain, which is specific for theregulatory element, and an effector domain, particularly an activator,can be useful as an inducing agent for a plant stress-regulatedregulatory element. Furthermore, such a recombinant polypeptide providesthe advantage that the effector domain can be a repressor domain,thereby providing a repressing agent, which decreases expression fromthe regulatory element. In addition, use of such a method of modulatingexpression of an endogenous plant stress-regulated gene provides theadvantage that the polynucleotide encoding the recombinant polypeptidecan be introduced into cells of the plant, thus providing a transgenicplant that can be regulated coordinately with the endogenous plantstress-regulated gene upon exposure to a stress condition. Apolynucleotide encoding such a recombinant polypeptide can beoperatively linked to and expressed from a constitutively active,inducible or tissue specific or phase specific regulatory element.

In one embodiment, the promoter may be a gamma zein promoter, an oleosinole16 promoter, a globulin I promoter, an actin I promoter, an actin c1promoter, a sucrose synthetase promoter, an INOPS promoter, an EXM5promoter, a globulin2 promoter, a b-32, ADPG-pyrophosphorylase promoter,an LtpI promoter, an Ltp2 promoter, an oleosin ole 17 promoter, anoleosin ole 18 promoter, an actin 2 promoter, a pollen-specific proteinpromoter, a pollen-specific pectate lyase promoter, an anther-specificprotein promoter (Huffman), an anther-specific gene RTS2 promoter, apollen-specific gene promoter, a tapeturn-specific gene promoter,tapeturn-specific gene RAB24 promoter, an anthranilate synthase alphasubunit promoter, an alpha zein promoter, an anthranilate synthase betasubunit promoter, a dihydrodipicolinate synthase promoter, a Thi 1promoter, an alcohol dehydrogenase promoter, a cab binding proteinpromoter, an H3C4 promoter, a RUBISCO SS starch branching enzymepromoter, an ACCase promoter, an actin3 promoter, an actin7 promoter, aregulatory protein GF14-12 promoter, a ribosomal protein L9 promoter, acellulose biosynthetic enzyme promoter, an S-adenosyl-L-homocysteinehydrolase promoter, a superoxide dismutase promoter, a C-kinase receptorpromoter, a phosphoglycerate mutase promoter, a root-specific RCc3 mRNApromoter, a glucose-6 phosphate isomerase promoter, apyrophosphate-fructose 6-phosphate-1-phosphotransferase promoter, anubiquitin promoter, a beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthase promoter, a 33 kDaphotosystem 11 promoter, an oxygen evolving protein promoter, a 69 kDavacuolar ATPase subunit promoter, a metallothionein-like proteinpromoter, a glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter, an ABA-and ripening-inducible-like protein promoter, a phenylalanine ammonialyase promoter, an adenosine triphosphatase S-adenosyl-L-homocysteinehydrolase promoter, an a-tubulin promoter, a cab promoter, a PEPCasepromoter, an R gene promoter, a lectin promoter, a light harvestingcomplex promoter, a heat shock protein promoter, a chalcone synthasepromoter, a zein promoter, a globulin-1 promoter, an ABA promoter, anauxin-binding protein promoter, a UDP glucose flavonoidglycosyl-transferase gene promoter, an NTI promoter, an actin promoter,an opaque 2 promoter, a b70 promoter, an oleosin promoter, a CaMV 35Spromoter, a CaMV 19S promoter, a histone promoter, a turgor-induciblepromoter, a pea small subunit RuBP carboxylase promoter, a Ti plasmidmannopine synthase promoter, Ti plasmid nopaline synthase promoter, apetunia chalcone isomerase promoter, a bean glycine rich protein Ipromoter, a CaMV 35S transcript promoter, a potato patatin promoter, ora S-E9 small subunit RuBP carboxylase promoter.

In addition to promoters, a variety of 5N and 3N transcriptionalregulatory sequences are also available for use in the presentinvention. Transcriptional terminators are responsible for thetermination of transcription and correct mRNA polyadenylation. The3′-untranslated regulatory DNA sequence preferably includes from about50 to about 1,000, more preferably about 100 to about 1,000, nucleotidebase pairs and contains plant transcriptional and translationaltermination sequences. Appropriate transcriptional terminators and thosewhich are known to function in plants include the CaMV 35S terminator,the tml terminator, the nopaline synthase terminator, the pea rbcS E9terminator, the terminator for the T7 transcript from the octopinesynthase gene of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and the 3N end of theprotease inhibitor I or II genes from potato or tomato, although other3N elements known to those of skill in the art can also be employed.Alternatively, one also could use a gamma coixin, oleosin 3 or otherterminator from the genus Coix. Preferred 3′ elements include those fromthe nopaline synthase gene of Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Bevan et al.,1983), the terminator for the T7 transcript from the octopine synthasegene of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and the 3′ end of the proteaseinhibitor I or II genes from potato or tomato.

As the DNA sequence between the transcription initiation site and thestart of the coding sequence, i.e., the untranslated leader sequence,can influence gene expression, one may also wish to employ a particularleader sequence. Preferred leader sequences are contemplated to includethose that include sequences predicted to direct optimum expression ofthe attached sequence, i.e., to include a preferred consensus leadersequence that may increase or maintain mRNA stability and preventinappropriate initiation of translation. The choice of such sequenceswill be known to those of skill in the art in light of the presentdisclosure. Sequences that are derived from genes that are highlyexpressed in plants will be most preferred.

Other sequences that have been found to enhance gene expression intransgenic plants include intron sequences (e.g., from Adh1, bronze1,actin1, actin 2 (WO 00/760067), or the sucrose synthase intron) andviral leader sequences (e.g., from TMV, MCMV and AMV). For example, anumber of non-translated leader sequences derived from viruses are knownto enhance expression. Specifically, leader sequences from tobaccomosaic virus (TMV), maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV), and alfalfamosaic virus (AMV) have been shown to be effective in enhancingexpression (e.g., Gallie et al., 1987; Skuzeski et al., 1990). Otherleaders known in the art include but are not limited to picornavirusleaders, for example, EMCV leader (encephalomyocarditis virus 5′non-coding region; Elroy-Stein et al., 1989); potyvirus leaders, forexample, TEV leader (tobacco etch virus); MDMV leader (maize dwarfmosaic virus); human immunoglobulin heavy chain binding protein (BiP)leader, (Macejak et al., 1991); untranslated leader from the coatprotein mRNA of AMV (AMV RNA 4; Jobling et al., 1987), TMV (Gallie etal., 1989), and MCMV (Lommel et al., 1991; see also, della Cioppa etal., 1987).

Regulatory elements such as Adh intron 1 (Callis et al., 1987), sucrosesynthase intron (Vasil et al., 1989) or TMV omega element (Gallie, etal., 1989), may further be included where desired. Examples of enhancersinclude elements from the CaMV 35S promoter, octopine synthase genes(Ellis et al., 1987), the rice actin I gene, the maize alcoholdehydrogenase gene (Callis et al., 1987), the maize shrunken I gene(Vasil et al., 1989), TMV Omega element (Gallie et al., 1989) andpromoters from non-plant eukaryotes (e.g. yeast; Ma et al., 1988).

Vectors for use in accordance with the present invention may beconstructed to include the ocs enhancer element, which was firstidentified as a 16 bp palindromic enhancer from the octopine synthase(ocs) gene of ultilane (Ellis et al., 1987), and is present in at least10 other promoters (Bouchez et al., 1989). The use of an enhancerelement, such as the ocs element and particularly multiple copies of theelement, will act to increase the level of transcription from adjacentpromoters when applied in the context of monocot transformation.

The methods of the invention provide genetically modified plant cells,which can contain, for example, a coding region, or peptide portionthereof, of a plant stress-regulated gene operatively linked to aheterologous inducible regulatory element; or a plant stress-regulatedregulatory element operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotidesequence encoding a polypeptide of interest. In such a plant, theexpression from the inducible regulatory element can be effected byexposing the plant cells to an inducing agent in any of numerous waysdepending, for example, on the inducible regulatory element and theinducing agent. For example, where the inducible regulatory element is acold responsive regulatory element present in the cells of a transgenicplant, the plant can be exposed to cold conditions, which can beproduced artificially, for example, by placing the plant in athermostatically controlled room, or naturally, for example, by plantingthe plant in an environment characterized, at least in part, byattaining temperatures sufficient to induce transcription from thepromoter but not so cold as to kill the plants. By examining thephenotype of such transgenic plants, those plants that ectopicallyexpress a gene product that confers increased resistance of the plant tocold can be identified. Similarly, a transgenic plant containing ametallothionein promoter can be exposed to metal ions such as cadmium orcopper by watering the plants with a solution containing the inducingmetal ions, or can be planted in soil that is contaminated with a levelof such metal ions that is toxic to most plants. The phenotype ofsurviving plants can be observed, those expressing desirable traits canbe selected.

As used herein, the term “phenotype” refers to a physically detectablecharacteristic. A phenotype can be identified visually by inspecting thephysical appearance of a plant following exposure, for example, toincreased osmotic conditions; can be identified using an assay todetecting a product produced due to expression of reporter gene, forexample, an RNA molecule, a polypeptide such as an enzyme, or otherdetectable signal such as disclosed herein; or by using any appropriatetool useful for identifying a phenotype of a plant, for example, amicroscope, a fluorescence activated cell sorter, or the like.

A transgenic plant containing an inducible regulatory element such as asteroid inducible regulatory element can be exposed to a steroid bywatering the plants with a solution containing the steroid. The use ofan inducible regulatory element that is induced upon exposure to achemical or biological inducing agent that can be placed in solution orsuspension in an aqueous medium can be particularly useful because theinducing agent can be applied conveniently to a relatively large crop oftransgenic plants containing the inducible regulatory element, forexample, through a watering system or by spraying the inducing agentover the field. As such, inducible regulatory elements that areresponsive to an environmental inducing agent, for example, cold; heat;metal ions or other potentially toxic agents such as a pesticides, whichcan contaminate a soil; or the like; or inducible regulatory elementsthat are regulated by inducing agents that conveniently can be appliedto plants, can be particularly useful in a method or composition of theinvention, and allow the identification and selection of plants thatexpress desirable traits and survive and grow in environments thatotherwise would not support growth of the plants.

As disclosed herein, the present invention provides plantstress-regulated regulatory elements, which are identified based on theexpression of clusters of plant genes in response to stress. As usedherein, the term “stress-regulated regulatory element of a plant” or“plant stress-regulated regulatory element” means a nucleotide sequenceof a plant genome that can respond to a stress such that expression of agene product encoded by a gene comprising the regulatory element (astress-inducible gene) is increased above or decreased below the levelof expression of the gene product in the absence of the stresscondition. The regulatory element can be any gene regulatory element,including, for example, a promoter, an enhancer, a silencer, or thelike. In one embodiment, the plant stress-regulated regulatory elementis a plant stress-regulated promoter.

For purposes of modulating the responsiveness of a plant to a stresscondition, it can be useful to introduce a modified plantstress-regulated regulatory element into a plant. Such a modifiedregulatory element can have any desirable characteristic, for example,it can be inducible to a greater level than the corresponding wild-typepromoter, or it can be inactivated such that, upon exposure to a stress,there is little or no induction of expression of a nucleotide sequenceoperatively linked to the mutant element. A plant stress-regulatedregulatory element can be modified by incorporating random mutationsusing, for example, in vitro recombination or DNA shuffling (Stemmer etal., Nature 370: 389-391, 1994; U.S. Pat. No. 5,605,793, each of whichis incorporated herein by reference). Using such a method, millions ofmutant copies of the polynucleotide, for example, stress-regulatedregulatory element, can be produced based on the original nucleotidesequence, and variants with improved properties, such as increasedinducibility can be recovered.

A mutation method such as DNA shuffling encompasses forming amutagenized double-stranded polynucleotide from a templatedouble-stranded polynucleotide, wherein the template double-strandedpolynucleotide has been cleaved into double stranded random fragments ofa desired size, and comprises the steps of adding to the resultantpopulation of double-stranded random fragments one or more single ordouble stranded oligonucleotides, wherein the oligonucleotides comprisean area of identity and an area of heterology to the double strandedtemplate polynucleotide; denaturing the resultant mixture of doublestranded random fragments and oligonucleotides into single strandedfragments; incubating the resultant population of single strandedfragments with a polymerase under conditions that result in theannealing of the single stranded fragments at the areas of identity toform pairs of annealed fragments, the areas of identity being sufficientfor one member of a pair to prime replication of the other, therebyforming a mutagenized double-stranded polynucleotide; and repeating thesecond and third steps for at least two further cycles, wherein theresultant mixture in the second step of a further cycle includes themutagenized double-stranded polynucleotide from the third step of theprevious cycle, and the further cycle forms a further mutagenizeddouble-stranded polynucleotide. Preferably, the concentration of asingle species of double stranded random fragment in the population ofdouble stranded random fragments is less than 1% by weight of the totalDNA. In addition, the template double stranded polynucleotide cancomprise at least about 100 species of polynucleotides. The size of thedouble stranded random fragments can be from about 5 base pairs to 5kilobase pairs. In a further embodiment, the fourth step of the methodcomprises repeating the second and the third steps for at least 10cycles.

A plant stress-regulated regulatory element of the invention is usefulfor expressing a nucleotide sequence operatively linked to the elementin a cell, particularly a plant cell. As used herein, the term“expression” refers to the transcription and/or translation of anendogenous gene or a transgene in plants. In the case of an antisensemolecule, for example, the term “expression” refers to the transcriptionof the polynucleotide encoding the antisense molecule.

As used herein, the term “operatively linked,” when used in reference toa plant stress-regulated regulatory element, means that the regulatoryelement is positioned with respect to a second nucleotide sequence suchthat the regulatory element effects transcription or transcription andtranslation of the nucleotide sequence in substantially the same manner,but not necessarily to the same extent, as it does when the regulatoryelement is present in its natural position in a genome. Transcriptionalpromoters, for example, generally act in a position and orientationdependent manner and usually are positioned at or within about fivenucleotides to about fifty nucleotides 5′ (upstream) of the start siteof transcription of a gene in nature. In comparison, enhancers andsilencers can act in a relatively position or orientation independentmanner and, therefore, can be positioned several hundred or thousandnucleotides upstream or downstream from a transcription start site, orin an intron within the coding region of a gene, yet still beoperatively linked to a coding region so as to effect transcription.

The second nucleotide sequence, i.e., the sequence operatively linked tothe plant stress-regulated regulatory element, can be any nucleotidesequence, including, for example, a coding region of a gene or cDNA; asequence encoding an antisense molecule, an RNAi molecule, ribozyme,triplexing agent (see, for example, Frank-Kamenetskii and Mirkin, Ann.Rev. Biochem. 64:65-95, 1995), or the like; or a sequence that, whentranscribed, can be detected in the cell using, for example, byhybridization or amplification, or when translated produces a detectablesignal. The term “coding region” is used broadly herein to include anucleotide sequence of a genomic DNA or a cDNA molecule comprising allor part of a coding region of the coding strand. A coding region can betranscribed from an operatively linked regulatory element, and can betranslated into a full length polypeptide or a peptide portion of apolypeptide. It should be recognized that, in a nucleotide sequencecomprising a coding region, not all of the nucleotides in the sequenceneed necessarily encode the polypeptide and, particularly, that a genetranscript can contain one or more introns, which do not encode an aminoacid sequence of a polypeptide but, nevertheless, are part of the codingregion, particularly the coding strand, of the gene.

The present invention also relates to a recombinant polynucleotide,which contains a polynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated geneoperatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence. As usedherein, the term “polynucleotide portion of plant stress-regulatedsequence” means a contiguous nucleotide sequence of the plantstress-regulated gene that provides a function. The portion can be anyportion of the sequence, particularly a coding sequence, or a sequenceencoding a peptide portion of the stress-regulated polypeptide; thestress-regulated regulatory element; a sequence useful as an antisensemolecule or triplexing agent; or a sequence useful for disrupting(knocking-out) an endogenous plant stress-regulated gene.

A heterologous nucleotide sequence is a nucleotide sequence that is notnormally part of the plant stress-regulated gene from which thepolynucleotide portion of the plant stress-regulated gene-component ofthe recombinant polynucleotide is obtained; or, if it is a part of theplant stress-regulated gene from which the polynucleotide portion isobtained, it is an orientation other than it would normally be in, forexample, is an antisense sequence, or comprises at least partiallydiscontinuous as compared to the genomic structure, for example, asingle exon operatively linked to the regulatory element. In general,where the polynucleotide portion of the plant stress-regulated genecomprises the coding sequence in a recombinant polynucleotide of theinvention, the heterologous nucleotide sequence will function as aregulatory element. The regulatory element can be any heterologousregulatory element, including, for example, a constitutively activeregulatory element, an inducible regulatory element, or a tissuespecific or phase specific regulatory element, as disclosed above.Conversely, where the polynucleotide portion of the plantstress-regulated polynucleotide comprises the stress-regulatedregulatory element of a recombinant polynucleotide of the invention, theheterologous nucleotide sequence generally will be a nucleotide sequencethat can be transcribed and, if desired, translated. Where theheterologous nucleotide sequence is expressed from a plantstress-regulated regulatory element, it generally confers a desirablephenotype to a plant cell containing the recombinant polynucleotide, orprovides a means to identify a plant cell containing the recombinantpolynucleotide. It should be recognized that a “desirable” phenotype canbe one that decreases the ability of a plant cell to compete where theplant cell, or a plant containing the cell, is an undesired plant cell.Thus, a heterologous nucleotide sequence can allow a plant to grow, forexample, under conditions in which it would not normally be able togrow.

A heterologous nucleotide sequence can be, or encode, a selectablemarker. As used herein, the term “selectable marker” is used herein torefer to a molecule that, when present or expressed in a plant cell,provides a means to identify a plant cell containing the marker. Assuch, a selectable marker can provide a means for screening a populationof plants, or plant cells, to identify those having the marker. Aselectable marker also can confer a selective advantage to the plantcell, or a plant containing the cell. The selective advantage can be,for example, the ability to grow in the presence of a negative selectiveagent such as an antibiotic or herbicide, compared to the growth ofplant cells that do not contain the selectable marker. The selectiveadvantage also can be due, for example, to an enhanced or novelcapacity, to utilize an added compound as a nutrient, growth factor orenergy source. A selectable advantage can be conferred, for example, bya single polynucleotide, or its expression product, or to a combinationof polynucleotides whose expression in a plant cell gives the cell witha positive selective advantage, a negative selective advantage, or both.

Examples of selectable markers include those that confer antimetaboliteresistance, for example, dihydrofolate reductase, which confersresistance to methotrexate (Reiss, Plant Physiol. (Life Sci. Adv.)13:143-149, 1994); neomycin phosphotransferase, which confers resistanceto the aminoglycosides neomycin, kanamycin and paromycin(Herrera-Estrella, EMBO J. 2:987-995, 1983) and hygro, which confersresistance to hygromycin (Marsh, Gene 32:481-485, 1984), trpB, whichallows cells to utilize indole in place of tryptophan; hisD, whichallows cells to utilize histinol in place of histidine (Hartman, Proc.Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 85:8047, 1988); mannose-6-phosphate isomerasewhich allows cells to utilize mannose (WO 94/20627); ornithinedecarboxylase, which confers resistance to the ornithine decarboxylaseinhibitor, 2-(difluoromethyl)-DL-ornithine (DFMO; McConlogue, 1987, In:Current Communications in Molecular Biology, Cold Spring HarborLaboratory ed.); and deaminase from Aspergillus terreus, which confersresistance to Blasticidin S (Tamura, Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem.59:2336-2338, 1995). Additional selectable markers include those thatconfer herbicide resistance, for example, phosphinothricinacetyltransferase gene, which confers resistance to phosphinothricin(White et al., Nucl. Acids Res. 18:1062, 1990; Spencer et al., Theor.Appl. Genet. 79:625-631, 1990), a mutant EPSPV-synthase, which confersglyphosate resistance (Hinchee et al., Bio/Technology 91:915-922, 1998),a mutant acetolactate synthase, which confers imidazolione orsulfonylurea resistance (Lee et al., EMBO J. 7:1241-1248, 1988), amutant psbA, which confers resistance to atrazine (Smeda et al., PlantPhysiol. 103:911-917, 1993), or a mutant protoporphyrinogen oxidase (seeU.S. Pat. No. 5,767,373), or other markers conferring resistance to anherbicide such as glufosinate. In addition, markers that facilitateidentification of a plant cell containing the polynucleotide encodingthe marker include, for example, luciferase (Giacomin, Plant Sci.116:59-72, 1996; Scikantha, J. Bacteriol. 178:121, 1996), greenfluorescent protein (Gerdes, FEBS Lett. 389:44-47, 1996) orfl-glucuronidase (Jefferson, EMBO J. 6:3901-3907, 1997), and numerousothers as disclosed herein or otherwise known in the art. Such markersalso can be used as reporter molecules.

A heterologous nucleotide sequence can encode an antisense molecule,particularly an antisense molecule specific for a nucleotide sequence ofa plant stress-regulated gene, for example, the gene from which theregulatory component of the recombinant polynucleotide is derived. Sucha recombinant polynucleotide can be useful for reducing the expressionof a plant stress-regulated polypeptide in response to a stresscondition because the antisense molecule, like the polypeptide, onlywill be induced upon exposure to the stress. A heterologous nucleotidesequence also can be, or can encode, a ribozyme or a triplexing agent.In addition to being useful as heterologous nucleotide sequences, suchmolecules also can be used directly in a method of the invention, forexample, to modulate the responsiveness of a plant cell to a stresscondition. Thus, an antisense molecule, ribozyme, or triplexing agentcan be contacted directly with a target cell and, upon uptake by thecell, can effect their antisense, ribozyme or triplexing activity; orcan be encoded by a heterologous nucleotide sequence that is expressedin a plant cell from a plant stress-regulated regulatory element,whereupon it can effect its activity.

An antisense polynucleotide, ribozyme or triplexing agent iscomplementary to a target sequence, which can be a DNA or RNA sequence,for example, messenger RNA, and can be a coding sequence, a nucleotidesequence comprising an intron-exon junction, a regulatory sequence suchas a Shine-Delgarno-like sequence, or the like. The degree ofcomplementarity is such that the polynucleotide, for example, anantisense polynucleotide, can interact specifically with the targetsequence in a cell. Depending on the total length of the antisense orother polynucleotide, one or a few mismatches with respect to the targetsequence can be tolerated without losing the specificity of thepolynucleotide for its target sequence. Thus, few if any mismatcheswould be tolerated in an antisense molecule consisting, for example, oftwenty nucleotides, whereas several mismatches will not affect thehybridization efficiency of an antisense molecule that is complementary,for example, to the full length of a target mRNA encoding a cellularpolypeptide. The number of mismatches that can be tolerated can beestimated, for example, using well known formulas for determininghybridization kinetics (see Sambrook et al., “Molecular Cloning; ALaboratory Manual” 2nd Edition (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.; 1989)) or can be determined empirically usingmethods as disclosed herein or otherwise known in the art, particularlyby determining that the presence of the antisense polynucleotide,ribozyme, or triplexing agent in a cell decreases the level of thetarget sequence or the expression of a polypeptide encoded by the targetsequence in the cell.

A nucleotide sequence useful as an antisense molecule, a ribozyme or atriplexing agent can inhibit translation or cleave a polynucleotideencoded by plant stress-regulated gene, thereby modulating theresponsiveness of a plant cell to a stress condition. An antisensemolecule, for example, can bind to an mRNA to form a double strandedmolecule that cannot be translated in a cell. Antisense oligonucleotidesof at least about 15 to 25 nucleotides are preferred since they areeasily synthesized and can hybridize specifically with a targetsequence, although longer antisense molecules can be expressed from arecombinant polynucleotide introduced into the target cell. Specificnucleotide sequences useful as antisense molecules can be identifiedusing well known methods, for example, gene walking methods (see, forexample, Seimiya et al., J. Biol. Chem. 272:4631-4636 (1997), which isincorporated herein by reference). Where the antisense molecule iscontacted directly with a target cell, it can be operatively associatedwith a chemically reactive group such as iron-linked EDTA, which cleavesa target RNA at the site of hybridization. A triplexing agent, incomparison, can stall transcription (Maher et al., Antisense Res. Devel.1:227 (1991); Helene, Anticancer Drug Design 6:569 (1991)).

A plant stress-regulated regulatory element can be included in anexpression cassette. As used herein, the term “expression cassette”refers to a nucleotide sequence that can direct expression of anoperatively linked polynucleotide. Thus, a plant stress-regulatedregulatory element can constitute an expression cassette, or componentthereof. An expression cassette is particularly useful for directingexpression of a nucleotide sequence, which can be an endogenousnucleotide sequence or a heterologous nucleotide sequence, in a cell,particularly a plant cell. If desired, an expression cassette also cancontain additional regulatory elements, for example, nucleotidesequences required for proper translation of a polynucleotide sequenceinto a polypeptide. In general, an expression cassette can be introducedinto a plant cell such that the plant cell, a plant resulting from theplant cell, seeds obtained from such a plant, or plants produced fromsuch seeds are resistant to a stress condition.

Additional regulatory sequences as disclosed above or other desirablesequences such as selectable markers or the like can be incorporatedinto an expression cassette containing a plant stress-regulatedregulatory element (see, for example, WO 99/47552). Examples of suitablemarkers include dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) or neomycin resistancefor eukaryotic cells and tetracycline or ampicillin resistance for E.coli. Selection markers in plants include bleomycin, gentamycin,glyphosate, hygromycin, kanamycin, methotrexate, phleomycin,phosphinotricin, spectinomycin, streptomycin, sulfonamide andsulfonylureas resistance (see, for example, Maliga et al., Methods inPlant Molecular Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1995, page39). The selection marker can have its own promoter or its expressioncan be driven by the promoter operably linked to the sequence ofinterest. Additional sequences such as intron sequences (e.g. from Adh1or bronze1) or viral leader sequences (e.g. from TMV, MCMV and AIVIV),all of which can enhance expression, can be included in the cassette. Inaddition, where it is desirable to target expression of a nucleotidesequence operatively linked to the stress-regulated regulatory element,a sequence encoding a cellular localization motif can be included in thecassette, for example, such that an encoded transcript or translationproduct is translocated to and localizes in the cytosol, nucleus, achloroplast, or another subcellular organelle. Examples of usefultransit peptides and transit peptide sequences can be found in VonHeijne et al., Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 9: 104, 1991; Clark et al., J.Biol. Chem. 264:17544, 1989; della Cioppa et al., Plant Physiol. 84:965,1987; Romer et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 196:1414, 1993; Shah etal., Science 233:478, 1986; Archer et al., J. Bioenerg Biomemb. 22:789,1990; Scandalios, Prog. Clin. Biol. Res. 344:515, 1990; Weisbeek et al.,J. Cell Sci. Suppl. 11:199, 1989; Bruce, Trends Cell Biol. 10:440, 2000.The present invention can utilize native or heterologous transitpeptides. The encoding sequence for a transit peptide can include all ora portion of the encoding sequence for a particular transit peptide, andmay also contain portions of the mature protein encoding sequenceassociated with a particular transit peptide.

A polynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated plant gene, or anexpression cassette, can be introduced into a cell as a naked DNAmolecule, can be incorporated in a matrix such as a liposome or aparticle such as a viral particle, or can be incorporated into a vector.Such vectors can be cloning or expression vectors, but other uses arewithin the scope of the present invention. A cloning vector is aself-replicating DNA molecule that serves to transfer a DNA segment intoa host cell. The three most common types of cloning vectors arebacterial plasmids, phages, and other viruses. An expression vector is acloning vector designed so that a coding sequence inserted at aparticular site will be transcribed and translated into a protein.Incorporation of the polynucleotide into a vector can facilitatemanipulation of the polynucleotide, or introduction of thepolynucleotide into a plant cell. A vector can be derived from a plasmidor a viral vector such as a T-DNA vector (Horsch et al., Science227:1229-1231, 1985, which is incorporated herein by reference). Ifdesired, the vector can comprise components of a plant transposableelement, for example, a Ds transposon (Bancroft and Dean, Genetics134:1221-1229, 1993, which is incorporated herein by reference) or anSpm transposon (Aarts et al., Mol. Gen. Genet. 247:555-564, 1995, whichis incorporated herein by reference).

In addition to containing the polynucleotide portion of a plantstress-regulated gene, a vector can contain various nucleotide sequencesthat facilitate, for example, rescue of the vector from a transformedplant cell; passage of the vector in a host cell, which can be a plant,animal, bacterial, or insect host cell; or expression of an encodingnucleotide sequence in the vector, including all or a portion of arescued coding region. As such, the vector can contain any of a numberof additional transcription and translation elements, includingconstitutive and inducible promoters, enhancers, and the like (see, forexample, Bitter et al., Meth. Enzymol. 153:516-544, 1987). For example,a vector can contain elements useful for passage, growth or expressionin a bacterial system, including a bacterial origin of replication; apromoter, which can be an inducible promoter; and the like. Incomparison, a vector that can be passaged in a mammalian host cellsystem can have a promoter such as a metallothionein promoter, which hascharacteristics of both a constitutive promoter and an induciblepromoter, or a viral promoter such as a retrovirus long terminal repeat,an adenovirus late promoter, or the like. A vector also can contain oneor more restriction endonuclease recognition and cleavage sites,including, for example, a polylinker sequence, to facilitate rescue of anucleotide sequence operably linked to the polynucleotide portion.

The present invention also relates to a method of using a polynucleotideportion of a plant stress-regulated gene to confer a selective advantageon a plant cell. Such a method can be performed by introducing, forexample, a plant stress-regulated regulatory element into a plant cell,wherein, upon exposure of the plant cell to a stress condition to whichthe regulatory element is responsive, a nucleotide sequence operativelylinked to the regulatory element is expressed, thereby conferring aselective advantage to plant cell. The operatively linked nucleotidesequence can be a heterologous nucleotide sequence, which can beoperatively linked to the regulatory element prior to introduction ofthe regulatory sequence into the plant cell; or can be an endogenousnucleotide sequence into which the regulatory element was targeted by amethod such as homologous recombination. The selective advantageconferred by the operatively linked nucleotide sequence can be such thatthe plant is better able to tolerate the stress condition; or can be anyother selective advantage.

As used herein, the term “selective advantage” refers to the ability ofa particular organism to better propagate, develop, grow, survive, orotherwise tolerate a condition as compared to a corresponding referenceorganism that does not contain a plant-stress regulated polynucleotideportion of the present invention. In one embodiment, a selectiveadvantage is exemplified by the ability of a desired plant, plant cell,or the like, that contains an introduced plant stress-regulatedregulatory element, to grow better than an undesired plant, plant cell,or the like, that does not contain the introduced regulatory element.For example, a recombinant polynucleotide comprising a plantstress-regulated regulatory element operatively linked to a heterologousnucleotide sequence encoding an enzyme that inactivates an herbicide canbe introduced in a desired plant. Upon exposure of a mixed population ofplants comprising the desired plants, which contain the recombinantpolynucleotide, and one or more other populations of undesired plants,which lack the recombinant polynucleotide, to a stress condition thatinduces expression of the regulatory element and to the herbicide, thedesired plants will have a greater likelihood of surviving exposure tothe toxin and, therefore, a selective advantage over the undesiredplants.

In another embodiment, a selective advantage is exemplified by theability of a desired plant, plant cell, or the like, to betterpropagate, develop, grow, survive, or otherwise tolerate a condition ascompared to an undesired plant, plant cell, or the like, that containsan introduced plant stress-regulated regulatory element. For example, arecombinant polynucleotide comprising a plant stress-regulatedregulatory element operatively linked to a plant cell toxin can beintroduced into cells of an undesirable plant present in a mixedpopulation of desired and undesired plants, for example, food crops andweeds, respectively, then the plants can be exposed to stress conditionsthat induce expression from the plant stress-regulated regulatoryelement, whereby expression of the plant cell toxin results ininhibition of growth or death of the undesired plants, thereby providinga selective advantage to the desired plants, which no longer have tocompete with the undesired plants for nutrients, light, or the like. Inanother example, a plant stress-regulated regulatory element operativelylinked to a plant cell toxin can be introduced into cells of plants usedas a nurse crop. Nurse crops, also called cover or companion crops, areplanted in combination with plants of interest to provide, among otherthings, shade and soil stability during establishment of the desiredplants. Once the desired plants have become established, the presence ofthe nurse crop may no longer be desirable. Exposure to conditionsinducing expression of the gene linked to the plant stress-regulatedregulatory element allows elimination of the nurse crop. Alternativelynurse crops can be made less tolerate to abiotic stress by theinhibition of any of the stress-regulated sequences disclosed herein.Inhibition can be accomplished by any of the method described herein.Upon exposure of the nurse crop to the stress, the decreased ability ofthe nurse crop to respond to the stress will result in elimination ofthe nurse crop, leaving only the desired plants.

The invention also provides a means of producing a transgenic plant,which comprises plant cells that exhibit altered responsiveness to astress condition. As such, the present invention further provides atransgenic plant, or plant cells or tissues derived therefrom, which aregenetically modified to respond to stress differently than acorresponding wild-type plant or plant not containing constructs of thepresent invention would respond. As used herein, the term“responsiveness to a stress condition” refers to the ability of a plantto express a plant stress-regulated gene upon exposure to the stresscondition. A transgenic plant cell contains a polypeptide portion of aplant stress-regulated gene, or a mutant form thereof, for example, aknock-out mutant. A knock-out mutant form of a plant stress-regulatedgene can contain, for example, a mutation such that a STOP codon isintroduced into the reading frame of the translated portion of the genesuch that expression of a functional stress-regulated polypeptide isprevented; or a mutation in the stress-regulated regulatory element suchthat inducibility of the element in response to a stress condition isinhibited. Such transgenic plants of the invention can display any ofvarious idiotypic modifications is response to an abiotic stress,including altered tolerance to the stress condition, as well asincreased or decreased plant growth, root growth, yield, or the like, ascompared to the corresponding wild-type plant.

The term “plant” is used broadly herein to include any plant at anystage of development, or to part of a plant, including a plant cutting,a plant cell, a plant cell culture, a plant organ, a plant seed, and aplantlet. A plant cell is the structural and physiological unit of theplant, comprising a protoplast and a cell wall. A plant cell can be inthe form of an isolated single cell or a cultured cell, or can be partof higher organized unit, for example, a plant tissue, plant organ, orplant. Thus, a plant cell can be a protoplast, a gamete producing cell,or a cell or collection of cells that can regenerate into a whole plant.As such, a seed, which comprises multiple plant cells and is capable ofregenerating into a whole plant, is considered plant cell for purposesof this disclosure. A plant tissue or plant organ can be a seed,protoplast, callus, or any other groups of plant cells that is organizedinto a structural or functional unit. Particularly useful parts of aplant include harvestable parts and parts useful for propagation ofprogeny plants. A harvestable part of a plant can be any useful part ofa plant, for example, flowers, pollen, seedlings, tubers, leaves, stems,fruit, seeds, roots, and the like. A part of a plant useful forpropagation includes, for example, seeds, fruits, cuttings, seedlings,tubers, rootstocks, and the like.

A transgenic plant can be regenerated from a transformed plant cell. Asused herein, the term “regenerate” means growing a whole plant from aplant cell; a group of plant cells; a protoplast; a seed; or a piece ofa plant such as a callus or tissue. Regeneration from protoplasts variesfrom species to species of plants. For example, a suspension ofprotoplasts can be made and, in certain species, embryo formation can beinduced from the protoplast suspension, to the stage of ripening andgermination. The culture media generally contains various componentsnecessary for growth and regeneration, including, for example, hormonessuch as auxins and cytokinins; and amino acids such as glutamic acid andproline, depending on the particular plant species. Efficientregeneration will depend, in part, on the medium, the genotype, and thehistory of the culture. If these variables are controlled, however,regeneration is reproducible.

Regeneration can occur from plant callus, explants, organs or plantparts. Transformation can be performed in the context of organ or plantpart regeneration. (see Meth. Enzymol. Vol. 118; Klee et al. Ann. Rev.Plant Physiol. 38:467, 1987, which is incorporated herein by reference).Utilizing the leaf disk-transformation-regeneration method, for example,disks are cultured on selective media, followed by shoot formation inabout two to four weeks (see Horsch et al., supra, 1985). Shoots thatdevelop are excised from calli and transplanted to appropriateroot-inducing selective medium. Rooted plantlets are transplanted tosoil as soon as possible after roots appear. The plantlets can berepotted as required, until reaching maturity.

In vegetatively propagated crops, the mature transgenic plants arepropagated utilizing cuttings or tissue culture techniques to producemultiple identical plants. Selection of desirable transgenotes is madeand new varieties are obtained and propagated vegetatively forcommercial use. In seed propagated crops, the mature transgenic plantscan be self crossed to produce a homozygous inbred plant. The resultinginbred plant produces seeds that contain the introduced plantstress-induced regulatory element, and can be grown to produce plantsthat express a polynucleotide or polypeptide in response to a stresscondition that induces expression from the regulatory element. As such,the invention further provides seeds produced by a transgenic plantobtained by a method of the invention.

In addition, transgenic plants comprising different recombinantsequences can be crossbred, thereby providing a means to obtaintransgenic plants containing two or more different transgenes, each ofwhich contributes a desirable characteristic to the plant. Methods forbreeding plants and selecting for crossbred plants having desirablecharacteristics or other characteristics of interest are well known inthe art.

A method of the invention can be performed by introducing apolynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated gene into the plant.As used herein, the term “introducing” means transferring apolynucleotide into a plant cell. A polynucleotide can be introducedinto a cell by a variety of methods well known to those of ordinaryskill in the art. For example, the polynucleotide can be introduced intoa plant cell using a direct gene transfer method such as electroporationor microprojectile mediated transformation, or using Agrobacteriummediated transformation. Non-limiting examples of methods for theintroduction of polynucleotides into plants are provided in greaterdetail herein. As used herein, the term “transformed” refers to a plantcell containing an exogenously introduced polynucleotide portion of aplant stress-regulated gene that is or can be rendered active in a plantcell, or to a plant comprising a plant cell containing such apolynucleotide.

It should be recognized that one or more polynucleotides, which are thesame or different can be introduced into a plant, thereby providing ameans to obtain a genetically modified plant containing multiple copiesof a single transgenic sequence, or containing two or more differenttransgenic sequences, either or both of which can be present in multiplecopies. Such transgenic plants can be produced, for example, by simplyselecting plants having multiple copies of a single type of transgenicsequence; by cotransfecting plant cells with two or more populations ofdifferent transgenic sequences and identifying those containing the twoor more different transgenic sequences; or by crossbreeding transgenicplants, each of which contains one or more desired transgenic sequences,and identifying those progeny having the desired sequences.

Methods for introducing a polynucleotide into a plant cell to obtain atransformed plant also include direct gene transfer (see European PatentA 164 575), injection, electroporation, biolistic methods such asparticle bombardment, pollen-mediated transformation, plant RNAvirus-mediated transformation, liposome-mediated transformation,transformation using wounded or enzyme-degraded immature embryos, orwounded or enzyme-degraded embryogenic callus, and the like.Transformation methods using Agrobacterium tumefaciens tumor inducing(Ti) plasmids or root-inducing (Ri) plasmids, or plant virus vectors arewell known in the art (see, for example, WO 99/47552; Weissbach &Weissbach, “Methods for Plant Molecular Biology” (Academic Press, NY1988), section VIII, pages 421-463; Grierson and Corey, “Plant MolecularBiology” 2d Ed. (Blackie, London 1988), Chapters 7-9, each of which isincorporated herein by reference; Horsch et al., supra, 1985). Thewild-type form of Agrobacterium, for example, contains a Ti plasmid,which directs production of tumorigenic crown gall growth on hostplants. Transfer of the tumor inducing T-DNA region of the Ti plasmid toa plant genome requires the Ti plasmid-encoded virulence genes as wellas T-DNA borders, which are a set of direct DNA repeats that delineatethe region to be transferred. An Agrobacterium based vector is amodified form of a Ti plasmid, in which the tumor inducing functions arereplaced by a nucleotide sequence of interest that is to be introducedinto the plant host.

Methods of using Agrobacterium mediated transformation includecocultivation of Agrobacterium with cultured isolated protoplasts;transformation of plant cells or tissues with Agrobacterium; andtransformation of seeds, apices or meristems with Agrobacterium. Inaddition, in planta transformation by Agrobacterium can be performedusing vacuum infiltration of a suspension of Agrobacterium cells(Bechtold et al., C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 316:1194, 1993, which isincorporated herein by reference).

Agrobacterium mediated transformation can employ cointegrate vectors orbinary vector systems, in which the components of the Ti plasmid aredivided between a helper vector, which resides permanently in theAgrobacterium host and carries the virulence genes, and a shuttlevector, which contains the gene of interest bounded by T-DNA sequences.Binary vectors are well known in the art (see, for example, De Framond,BioTechnology 1:262, 1983; Hoekema et al., Nature 303:179, 1983, each ofwhich is incorporated herein by reference) and are commerciallyavailable (Clontech; Palo Alto Calif.). For transformation,Agrobacterium can be cocultured, for example, with plant cells orwounded tissue such as leaf tissue, root explants, hypocotyledons, stempieces or tubers (see, for example, Glick and Thompson, “Methods inPlant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology” (Boca Raton Fla., CRC Press1993), which is incorporated herein by reference). Wounded cells withinthe plant tissue that have been infected by Agrobacterium can developorgans de novo when cultured under the appropriate conditions; theresulting transgenic shoots eventually give rise to transgenic plants,which contain an exogenous polynucleotide portion of a plantstress-regulated gene.

Agrobacterium mediated transformation has been used to produce a varietyof transgenic plants, including, for example, transgenic cruciferousplants such as Arabidopsis, mustard, rapeseed and flax; transgenicleguminous plants such as alfalfa, pea, soybean, trefoil and whiteclover; and transgenic solanaceous plants such as eggplant, petunia,potato, tobacco and tomato (see, for example, Wang et al.,“Transformation of Plants and Soil Microorganisms” (Cambridge,University Press 1995), which is incorporated herein by reference). Inaddition, Agrobacterium mediated transformation can be used to introducean exogeuous polynucleotide sequence, for example, a plantstress-regulated regulatory element into apple, aspen, belladonna, blackcurrant, carrot, celery, cotton, cucumber, grape, horseradish, lettuce,morning glory, muskmelon, neem, poplar, strawberry, sugar beet,sunflower, walnut, asparagus, rice and other plants (see, for example,Glick and Thompson, supra, 1993; Hiei et al., Plant J. 6:271-282, 1994;Shimamoto, Science 270:1772-1773, 1995).

Suitable strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and vectors as well astransformation of Agrobacteria and appropriate growth and selectionmedia are well known in the art (GV3101, pMK90RK), Koncz, Mol. Gen.Genet. 204:383-396, 1986; (C58C1, pGV3850kan), Deblaere, Nucl. Acid Res.13:4777, 1985; Bevan, Nucl. Acid Res. 12:8711, 1984; Koncz, Proc. Natl.Acad. Sci. USA 86:8467-8471, 1986; Koncz, Plant Mol. Biol. 20:963-976,1992; Koncz, Specialized vectors for gene tagging and expressionstudies. In: Plant Molecular Biology Manual Vol. 2, Gelvin andSchilperoort (Eds.), Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publ.(1994), 1-22; European Patent A-1 20 516; Hoekema: The Binary PlantVector System, Offsetdrukkerij Kanters B. V., Alblasserdam (1985),Chapter V; Fraley, Crit. Rev. Plant. Sci., 4:1-46; An, EMBO J.4:277-287, 1985).

Where a polynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated gene iscontained in vector, the vector can contain functional elements, forexample “left border” and “right border” sequences of the T-DNA ofAgrobacterium, which allow for stable integration into a plant genome.Furthermore, methods and vectors that permit the generation ofmarker-free transgenic plants, for example, where a selectable markergene is lost at a certain stage of plant development or plant breeding,are known, and include, for example, methods of co-transformation(Lyznik, Plant Mol. Biol. 13:151-161, 1989; Peng, Plant Mol. Biol.27:91-104, 1995), or methods that utilize enzymes capable of promotinghomologous recombination in plants (see, e.g., WO97/08331; Bayley, PlantMol. Biol. 18:353-361, 1992; Lloyd, Mol. Gen. Genet. 242:653-657, 1994;Maeser, Mol. Gen. Genet. 230:170-176, 1991; Onouchi, Nucl. Acids Res.19:6373-6378, 1991; see, also, Sambrook et al., supra, 1989).

A direct gene transfer method such as electroporation also can be usedto introduce a polynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated geneinto a cell such as a plant cell. For example, plant protoplasts can beelectroporated in the presence of the regulatory element, which can bein a vector (Fromm et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82:5824, 1985,which is incorporated herein by reference). Electrical impulses of highfield strength reversibly permeabilize membranes allowing theintroduction of the nucleic acid. Electroporated plant protoplastsreform the cell wall, divide and form a plant callus. Microinjection canbe performed as described in Potrykus and Spangenberg (eds.), GeneTransfer To Plants (Springer Verlag, Berlin, N.Y. 1995). A transformedplant cell containing the introduced polynucleotide can be identified bydetecting a phenotype due to the introduced polynucleotide, for example,increased or decreased tolerance to a stress condition.

Microprojectile mediated transformation also can be used to introduce apolynucleotide into a plant cell (Klein et al., Nature 327:70-73, 1987,which is incorporated herein by reference). This method utilizesmicroprojectiles such as gold or tungsten, which are coated with thedesired nucleic acid molecule by precipitation with calcium chloride,spermidine or polyethylene glycol. The microprojectile particles areaccelerated at high speed into a plant tissue using a device such as theBIOLISTIC PD-1000 (BioRad; Hercules Calif.).

Microprojectile mediated delivery (“particle bombardment”) is especiallyuseful to transform plant cells that are difficult to transform orregenerate using other methods. Methods for the transformation usingbiolistic methods are well known (Wan, Plant Physiol. 104:37-48, 1984;Vasil, Bio/Technology 11: 1553-1558, 1993; Christou, Trends in PlantScience 1:423-431, 1996). Microprojectile mediated transformation hasbeen used, for example, to generate a variety of transgenic plantspecies, including cotton, tobacco, corn, hybrid poplar and papaya (seeGlick and Thompson, supra, 1993). Important cereal crops such as wheat,oat, barley, sorghum and rice also have been transformed usingmicroprojectile mediated delivery (Duan et al., Nature Biotech.14:494-498, 1996; Shimamoto, Curr. Opin. Biotech. 5:158-162, 1994). Arapid transformation regeneration system for the production oftransgenic plants such as a system that produces transgenic wheat in twoto three months (see European Patent No. EP 0709462A2, which isincorporated herein by reference) also can be useful for producing atransgenic plant using a method of the invention, thus allowing morerapid identification of gene functions. The transformation of mostdicotyledonous plants is possible with the methods described above.Transformation of monocotyledonous plants also can be transformed using,for example, biolistic methods as described above, protoplasttransformation, electroporation of partially permeabilized cells,introduction of DNA using glass fibers, Agrobacterium mediatedtransformation, and the like.

Plastid transformation also can be used to introduce a polynucleotideportion of a plant stress-regulated gene into a plant cell (U.S. Pat.Nos. 5,451,513, 5,545,817, and 5,545,818; WO 95/16783; McBride et al.,Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 91:7301-7305, 1994). Chloroplasttransformation involves introducing regions of cloned plastid DNAflanking a desired nucleotide sequence, for example, a selectable markertogether with polynucleotide of interest into a suitable target tissue,using, for example, a biolistic or protoplast transformation method(e.g., calcium chloride or PEG mediated transformation). One to 1.5 kbflanking regions (“targeting sequences”) facilitate homologousrecombination with the plastid genome, and allow the replacement ormodification of specific regions of the plastome. Using this method,point mutations in the chloroplast 16S rRNA and rps12 genes, whichconfer resistance to spectinomycin and streptomycin, can be utilized asselectable markers for transformation (Svab et al., Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci., USA 87:8526-8530, 1990; Staub and Maliga, Plant Cell 4:39-45,1992), resulted in stable homopiasmic transformants; at a frequency ofapproximately one per 100 bombardments of target leaves. The presence ofcloning sites between these markers allowed creation of a plastidtargeting vector for introduction of foreign genes (Staub and Maliga,EMBO J. 12:601-606, 1993). Substantial increases in transformationfrequency are obtained by replacement of the recessive rRNA or r-proteinantibiotic resistance genes with a dominant selectable marker, thebacterial aadA gene encoding the spectinomycin-detoxifying enzymeaminoglycoside-3′-adenyltransferase (Svab and Maliga, Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci., USA 90:913-917, 1993). Approximately 15 to 20 cell division cyclesfollowing transformation are generally required to reach a homoplastidicstate. Plastid expression, in which genes are inserted by homologousrecombination into all of the several thousand copies of the circularplastid genome present in each plant cell, takes advantage of theenormous copy number advantage over nuclear-expressed genes to permitexpression levels that can readily exceed 10% of the total soluble plantprotein.

Plants suitable to treatment according to a method of the invention canbe monocots or dicots and include, but are not limited to, corn (Zeamays), Brassica sp. (e.g., B. napus, B. rapa, B. juncea), particularlythose Brassica species useful as sources of seed oil, alfalfa (Medicagosativa), rice (Oryza sativa), rye (Secale cereale), sorghum (Sorghumbicolor, Sorghum vulgare), millet (e.g., pearl millet (Pennisetumglaucum), proso millet (Panicum miliaceum), foxtail millet (Setariaitalica), finger millet (Eleusine coracana)), sunflower (Helianthusannuus), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), wheat (Triticum aestivum),soybean (Glycine max), tobacco) (Nicotiana tabacum), potato (Solanumtuberosum), peanuts (Arachis hypogaea), cotton (Gossypium barbadense,Gossypium hirsutum), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatus), cassava (Manihotesculenta), coffee (Cofea spp.), coconut (Cocos nucifera), pineapple(Ananas comosus), citrus trees (Citrus spp.), cocoa (Theobroma cacao),tea (Camellia sinensis), banana (Musa spp.), avocado (Persea ultilane),fig (Ficus casica), guava (Psidium guajava), mango (Mangifera indica),olive (Olea europaea), papaya (Carica papaya), cashew (Anacardiumoccidentale), macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia), almond (Prunusamygdalus), sugar beets (Beta vulgaris), sugarcane (Saccharum spp.),oats, duckweed (Lemna), barley, tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum),lettuce (e.g., Lactuca sativa), green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), limabeans (Phaseolus limensis), peas (Lathyrus spp.), and members of thegenus Cucumis such as cucumber (C. sativus), cantaloupe (C.cantalupensis), and musk melon (C. melo).

Ornamentals such as azalea (Rhododendron spp.), hydrangea (Macrophyllahydrangea), hibiscus (Hibiscus rosasanensis), roses (Rosa spp.), tulips(Tulipa spp.), daffodils (Narcissus spp.), petunias (Petunia hybrida),carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus), poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima),and chrysanthemum are also included. Additional ornamentals within thescope of the invention include impatiens, Begonia, Pelargonium, Viola,Cyclamen, Verbena, Vinca, Tagetes, Primula, Saint Paulia, Agertum,Amaranthus, Antihirrhinum, Aquilegia, Cineraria, Clover, Cosmo, Cowpea,Dahlia, Datura, Delphinium, Gerbera, Gladiolus, Gloxinia, Hippeastrum,Mesembryanthemum, Salpiglossos, and Zinnia.

Conifers that may be employed in practicing the present inventioninclude, for example, pines such as loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), slashpine (Pinus elliotii), ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), lodgepole pine(Pinus contorta), and Monterey pine (Pinus radiata), Douglas-fir(Pseudotsuga menziesii); Western hemlock (Tsuga ultilane); Sitka spruce(Picea glauca); redwood (Sequoia sempervirens); true firs such as silverfir (Abies amabilis) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea); and cedars such asWestern red cedar (Thuja plicata) and Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparisnootkatensis).

Leguminous plants which-may be used in the practice of the presentinvention include beans and peas. Beans include guar, locust bean,fenugreek, soybean, garden beans, cowpea, mungbean, lima bean, favabean, lentils, chickpea, etc. Legumes include, but are not limited to,Arachis, e.g., peanuts, Vicia, e.g., crown vetch, hairy vetch, adzukibean, mung bean, and chickpea, Lupinus, e.g., lupine, trifolium,Phaseolus, e.g., common bean and lima bean, Pisum, e.g., field bean,Melilotus, e.g., clover, Medicago, e.g., alfalfa, Lotus, e.g., trefoil,lens, e.g., lentil, and false indigo. Preferred forage and turf grassfor use in the methods of the invention include alfalfa, orchard grass,tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, creeping bent grass, and redtop.

Other plants within the scope of the invention include Acacia, aneth,artichoke, arugula, blackberry, canola, cilantro, clementines, escarole,eucalyptus, fennel, grapefruit, honey dew, jicama, kiwifruit, lemon,lime, mushroom, nut, okra, orange, parsley, persimmon, plantain,pomegranate, poplar, radiata pine, radicchio, Southern pine, sweetgum,tangerine, triticale, vine, yams, apple, pear, quince, cherry, apricot,melon, hemp, buckwheat, grape, raspberry, chenopodium, blueberry,nectarine, peach, plum, strawberry, watermelon, eggplant, pepper,cauliflower, Brassica, e.g., broccoli, cabbage, ultilan sprouts, onion,carrot, leek, beet, broad bean, celery, radish, pumpkin, endive, gourd,garlic, snapbean, spinach, squash, turnip, ultilane, chicory, groundnutand zucchini.

Angiosperms are divided into two broad classes based on the number ofcotyledons, which are seed leaves that generally store or absorb food; amonocotyledonous angiosperm has a single cotyledon, and a dicotyledonousangiosperm has two cotyledons. Angiosperms produce a variety of usefulproducts including materials such as lumber, rubber, and paper; fiberssuch as cotton and linen; herbs and medicines such as quinine andvinblastine; ornamental flowers such as roses and orchids; andfoodstuffs such as grains, oils, fruits and vegetables.

Angiosperms encompass a variety of flowering plants, including, forexample, cereal plants, leguminous plants, oilseed plants, hardwoodtrees, fruit-bearing plants and ornamental flowers, which generalclasses are not necessarily exclusive. Cereal plants, which produce anedible grain cereal, include, for example, corn, rice, wheat, barley,oat, rye, orchardgrass, guinea grass, sorghum and turfgrass. Leguminousplants include members of the pea family (Fabaceae) and produce acharacteristic fruit known as a legume. Examples of leguminous plantsinclude, for example, soybean, pea, chickpea, moth bean, broad bean,kidney bean, lima bean, lentil, cowpea, dry bean, and peanut, as well asalfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil, clover and sainfoin. Oilseed plants, whichhave seeds that are useful as a source of oil, include soybean,sunflower, rapeseed (canola) and cottonseed.

Angiosperms also include hardwood trees, which are perennial woodyplants that generally have a single stem (trunk). Examples of such treesinclude alder, ash, aspen, basswood (linden), beech, birch, cherry,cottonwood, elm, eucalyptus, hickory, locust, maple, oak, persimmon,poplar, sycamore, walnut, sequoia, and willow. Trees are useful, forexample, as a source of pulp, paper, structural material and fuel.

Angiosperms are fruit-bearing plants that produce a mature, ripenedovary, which generally contains seeds. A fruit can be suitable for humanor animal consumption or for collection of seeds to propagate thespecies. For example, hops are a member of the mulberry family that areprized for their flavoring in malt liquor. Fruit-bearing angiospermsalso include grape, orange, lemon, grapefruit, avocado, date, peach,cherry, olive, plum, coconut, apple and pear trees and blackberry,blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, pineapple, tomato, cucumber andeggplant plants. An ornamental flower is an angiosperm cultivated forits decorative flower. Examples of commercially important ornamentalflowers include rose, orchid, lily, tulip and chrysanthemum, snapdragon,camellia, carnation and petunia plants. The skilled artisan willrecognize that the methods of the invention can be practiced using theseor other angiosperms, as desired, as well as gymnosperms, which do notproduce seeds in a fruit.

A method of producing a transgenic plant can be performed by introducinga polynucleotide portion of plant stress-regulated gene into a plantcell genome, whereby the polynucleotide portion of the plantstress-regulated gene modulates a response of the plant cell to a stresscondition, thereby producing a transgenic plant, which comprises plantcells that exhibit altered responsiveness to the stress condition. Inone embodiment, the polynucleotide portion of the plant stress-regulatedgene encodes a stress-regulated polypeptide or functional peptideportion thereof, wherein expression of the stress-regulated polypeptideor functional peptide portion thereof either increases the stresstolerance of the transgenic plant, or decreases the stress tolerance ofthe transgenic plant. The polynucleotide portion of the plantstress-regulated gene encoding the stress-regulated polypeptide orfunctional peptide portion thereof can be operatively linked to aheterologous promoter.

In another embodiment, the polynucleotide portion of the plantstress-regulated gene comprises a stress-regulated regulatory element.The stress-regulated regulatory element can integrate into the plantcell genome in a site-specific manner, whereupon it can be operativelylinked to an endogenous nucleotide sequence, which can be expressed inresponse to a stress condition specific for the regulatory element; orcan be a mutant regulatory element, which is not responsive to thestress condition, whereby upon integrating into the plant cell genome,the mutant regulatory element disrupts an endogenous stress-regulatedregulatory element of a plant stress-regulated gene, thereby alteringthe responsiveness of the plant stress-regulated gene to the stresscondition. Accordingly, the invention also provides genetically modifiedplants, including transgenic plants, produced by such a method, and aplant cell obtained from such genetically modified plant, wherein saidplant cell exhibits altered responsiveness to the stress condition; aseed produced by a transgenic plant; and a cDNA library prepared from atransgenic plant.

Also provided is a method of modulating the responsiveness of a plantcell to a stress condition. Such a method can be performed, for example,by introducing a polynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated geneinto the plant cell, thereby modulating the responsiveness of the plantcell to a stress condition. As disclosed herein, the responsiveness ofthe plant cell can be increased or decreased upon exposure to the stresscondition, and the altered responsiveness can result in increased ordecreased tolerance of the plant cell to a stress condition. Thepolynucleotide portion of the plant stress-regulated gene can, but neednot, be integrated into the genome of the plant cell, thereby modulatingthe responsiveness of the plant cell to the stress condition.Accordingly, the invention also provide a genetically modified plant,including a transgenic plant, which contains an introducedpolynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated gene, as well asplant cells, tissues, and the like, which exhibit modulatedresponsiveness to a stress condition.

The polynucleotide portion of the plant stress-regulated gene can encodea stress-regulated polypeptide or functional peptide portion thereof,which can be operatively linked to a heterologous promoter. As usedherein, reference to a “functional peptide portion of a plantstress-regulated polypeptide” means a contiguous amino acid sequence ofthe polypeptide that has an activity of the full length polypeptide, orthat has an antagonist activity with respect to the full lengthpolypeptide, or that presents an epitope unique to the polypeptide.Thus, by expressing a functional peptide portion of a plantstress-regulated polypeptide in a plant cell, the peptide can act as anagonist or an antagonist of the polypeptide, thereby modulating theresponsiveness of the plant cell to a stress condition.

A polynucleotide portion of the plant stress-regulated nucleotidesequence also can contain a mutation, whereby upon integrating into theplant cell genome, the polynucleotide disrupts (knocks-out) anendogenous plant stress-regulated nucleotide sequence, therebymodulating the responsiveness of said plant cell to the stresscondition. Depending on whether the knocked-out gene encodes an adaptiveor a maladaptive stress-regulated polypeptide, the responsiveness of theplant will be modulated accordingly. Thus, a method of the inventionprovides a means of producing a transgenic plant having a knock-outphenotype of a plant stress-regulated nucleotide sequence.

Alternatively, the responsiveness of a plant or plant cell to a stresscondition can be modulated by use of a suppressor construct containingdominant negative mutation for any of the stress-regulated sequencesdescribed herein. Expression of a suppressor construct containing adominant mutant mutation generates a mutant transcript that, whencoexpressed with the wild-type transcript inhibits the action of thewild-type transcript. Methods for the design and use of dominantnegative constructs are well known (see, for example, in Herskowitz,Nature 329:219-222, 1987; Lagna and Hemmati-Brivanlou, Curr. TopicsDevel. Biol. 36:75-98, 1998).

The polynucleotide portion of the plant stress-regulated gene also cancomprise a stress-regulated regulatory element, which can be operativelylinked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence, which, upon expressionfrom the regulatory element in response to a stress condition, modulatesthe responsiveness of the plant cell to the stress condition. Such aheterologous nucleotide sequence can encode, for example, astress-inducible transcription factor such as DREB1A, which, uponexposure to the stress condition, is expressed such that it can amplifythe stress response (see Kasuga et al., supra, 1999). The heterologousnucleotide sequence also can encode a polynucleotide that is specificfor a plant stress-regulated gene, for example, an antisense molecule, aribozyme, and a triplexing agent, either of which, upon expression inthe plant cell, reduces or inhibits expression of a stress-regulatedpolypeptide encoded by the gene, thereby modulating the responsivenessof the plant cell to a stress condition, for example, an abnormal levelof cold, osmotic pressure, and salinity. As used herein, the term“abnormal,” when used in reference to a condition such as temperature,osmotic pressure, salinity, or any other condition that can be a stresscondition, means that the condition varies sufficiently from a rangegenerally considered optimum for growth of a plant that the conditionresults in an induction of a stress response in a plant. Methods ofdetermining whether a stress response has been induced in a plant aredisclosed herein or otherwise known in the art.

A plant stress-regulated regulatory element can be operatively linked toa heterologous polynucleotide sequence, such that the regulatory elementcan be introduced into a plant genome in a site-specific matter byhomologous recombination. For example, a mutant plant stress-regulatedregulatory element for a maladaptive stress-induced polypeptide can betransformed into a plant genome in a site specific manner by in vivomutagenesis, using a hybrid RNA-DNA oligonucleotide (“chimeroplast”(TIBTECH 15:441-447, 1997; WO 95/15972; Kren, Hepatology 25:1462-1468,1997; Cole-Strauss, Science 273:1386-1389, 1996, each of which isincorporated herein by reference). Part of the DNA component of theRNA-DNA oligonucleotide is homologous to a nucleotide sequencecomprising the regulatory element of the maladaptive gene, but includesa mutation or contains a heterologous region which is surrounded by thehomologous regions. By means of base pairing of the homologous regionsof the RNA-DNA oligonucleotide and of the endogenous nucleic acidmolecule, followed by a homologous recombination the mutation containedin the DNA component of the RNA-DNA oligonucleotide or the heterologousregion can be transferred to the plant genome, resulting in a “mutant”gene that, for example, is not induced in response to a stress and,therefore, does not confer the maladaptive phenotype. Such a methodsimilarly can be used to knock-out the activity of a stress-regulatedgene, for example, in an undesirable plant. Such a method can providethe advantage that a desirable wild-type plant need not compete with theundesirable plant, for example, for light, nutrients, or the like.

A method of modulating the responsiveness of a plant cell to a stresscondition also can be performed by introducing a mutation in thechromosomal copy of a plant stress-regulated gene, for example, in thestress-regulated regulatory element, by transforming a cell with achimeric oligonucleotide composed of a contiguous stretch of RNA and DNAresidues in a duplex conformation with double hairpin caps on the ends.An additional feature of the oligonucleotide is the presence of2′-0-methylation at the RNA residues. The RNA/DNA sequence is designedto align with the sequence of a chromosomal copy of the targetregulatory element and to contain the desired nucleotide change (seeU.S. Pat. No. 5,501,967, which is incorporated herein by reference).

A plant stress-regulated regulatory element also can be operativelylinked to a heterologous polynucleotide such that, upon expression fromthe regulatory element in the plant cell, confers a desirable phenotypeon the plant cell. For example, the heterologous polynucleotide canencode an aptamer, which can bind to a stress-induced polypeptide.Aptamers are nucleic acid molecules that are selected based on theirability to bind to and inhibit the activity of a protein or metabolite.Aptamers can be obtained by the SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligandsby Exponential Enrichment) method (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,270,163), whereina candidate mixture of single stranded nucleic acids having regions ofrandomized sequence is contacted with a target, and those nucleic acidshaving a specific affinity to the target are partitioned from theremainder of the candidate mixture; and amplified to yield a ligandenriched mixture. After several iterations a nucleic acid molecule(aptamer) having optimal affinity for the target is obtained. Forexample, such a nucleic acid molecule can be operatively linked to aplant stress-regulated regulatory element and introduced into a plant.Where the aptamer is selected for binding to a polypeptide that normallyis expressed from the regulatory element and is involved in an adaptiveresponse of the plant to a stress, the recombinant molecule comprisingthe aptamer can be useful for inhibiting the activity of thestress-regulated polypeptide, thereby decreasing the tolerance of theplant to the stress condition.

The invention provides a genetically modified plant, which can be atransgenic plant, that is tolerant or resistant to a stress condition.As used herein, the term “tolerant” or “resistant,” when used inreference to a stress condition of a plant, means that the particularplant, when exposed to a stress condition, shows less of an effect, orno effect, in response to the condition as compared to a correspondingreference plant (naturally occurring wild-type plant or a plant notcontaining a construct of the present invention). As a consequence, aplant encompassed within the present invention grows better under morewidely varying conditions, has higher yields and/or produces more seeds.Thus, a transgenic plant produced according to a method of the inventioncan demonstrate protection (as compared to a corresponding referenceplant) from a delay to complete inhibition of alteration in cellularmetabolism, or reduced cell growth or cell death caused by the stress.Preferably, the transgenic plant is capable of substantially normalgrowth under environmental conditions where the corresponding referenceplant shows reduced growth, metabolism or viability, or increased maleor female sterility.

The determination that a plant modified according to a method of theinvention has increased resistance to a stress-inducing condition can bemade by comparing the treated plant with a control (reference) plantusing well known methods. For example, a plant having increasedtolerance to saline stress can be identified by growing the plant on amedium such as soil, which contains a higher content of salt in theorder of at least about 10% compared to a medium the correspondingreference plant is capable of growing on. Advantageously, a planttreated according to a method of the invention can grow on a medium orsoil containing at least about 50%, or more than about 75%, particularlyat least about more than 100%, and preferably more than about 200% saltthan the medium or soil on which a corresponding reference plant cangrow. In particular, such a treated plant can grow on medium or soilcontaining at least 40 mM, generally at least 100 mM, particularly atleast 200 mM, and preferably at least 300 mM salt, including, forexample, a water soluble inorganic salt such as sodium sulfate,magnesium sulfate, calcium sulfate, sodium chloride, magnesium chloride,calcium chloride, potassium chloride, or the like; salts of agriculturalfertilizers, and salts associated with alkaline or acid soil conditions;particularly NaCl.

In another embodiment, the invention provides a plant that is lesstolerant or less resistant to a stress condition as compared to acorresponding reference plant. As used herein, the term “less tolerant”or “less resistant,” when used in reference to a stress condition of aplant, means that the particular plant, when exposed to a stresscondition, shows an alteration in response to the condition as comparedto a corresponding reference plant. As a consequence, such a plant,which generally is an undesirable plant species, is less likely to growwhen exposed to a stress condition than an untreated plant.

The present invention also relates to a method of expressing aheterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant cell. Such a method can beperformed, for example by introducing into the plant cell a plantstress-regulated regulatory element operatively linked to theheterologous nucleotide sequence, whereby, upon exposure of the plantcell to stress condition, the heterologous nucleotide sequence isexpressed in the plant cell. The heterologous nucleotide sequence canencode a selectable marker, or preferably, a polypeptide that confers adesirable trait upon the plant cell, for example, a polypeptide thatimproves the nutritional value, digestibility or ornamental value of theplant cell, or a plant comprising the plant cell. Accordingly, theinvention provides a transgenic plant that, in response to a stresscondition, can produce a heterologous polypeptide from a plantstress-regulated regulatory element. Such transgenic plants can providethe advantage that, when grown in a cold environment for example,expression of the heterologous polypeptide from a plant cold-regulatedregulatory element can result in increased nutritional value of theplant.

The present invention further relates to a method of modulating theactivity of a biological pathway in a plant cell, wherein the pathwayinvolves a stress-regulated polypeptide. As used herein, reference to apathway that “involves” a stress-regulated polypeptide means that thepolypeptide is required for normal function of the pathway. For example,plant stress-regulated polypeptides as disclosed herein include thoseacting as kinases or as transcription factors, which are well known tobe involved in signal transduction pathways. As such, a method of theinvention provides a means to modulate biological pathways involvingplant stress-regulated polypeptides, for example, by altering theexpression of the polypeptides in response to a stress condition. Thus,a method of the invention can be performed, for example, by introducinga polynucleotide portion of a plant stress-regulated gene into the plantcell, thereby modulating the activity of the biological pathway.

A method of the invention can be performed with respect to a pathwayinvolving any of the stress-regulated polypeptides as encoded by apolynucleotide of SEQ ID NOS: 1-2703, including for example, astress-regulated transcription factor, an enzyme, including a kinase, achannel protein (see, for example, Tables 29-31; see, also, Table 1).Pathways in which the disclosed stress-regulated stress factors areinvolved can be identified, for example, by searching the MunichInformation Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS) Arabidopsis thalianadatabase (MATDB), which is at http://www.mips.biochem.mpg.de/proj/thal/.

The present invention also relates to a method of identifying apolynucleotide that modulates a stress response in a plant cell. Such amethod can be performed, for example, by contacting an array of probesrepresentative of a plant cell genome and nucleic acid moleculesexpressed in plant cell exposed to the stress; detecting a nucleic acidmolecule that is expressed at a level different from a level ofexpression in the absence of the stress; introducing the nucleic acidmolecule that is expressed differently into a plant cell; and detectinga modulated response of the plant cell containing the introduced nucleicacid molecule to a stress, thereby identifying a polynucleotide thatmodulates a stress response in a plant cell. The contacting is underconditions that allow for selective hybridization of a nucleic acidmolecule with probe having sufficient complementarity, for example,under stringent hybridization conditions.

As used herein, the term “array of probes representative of a plant cellgenome” means an organized group of oligonucleotide probes that arelinked to a solid support, for example, a microchip or a glass slide,wherein the probes can hybridize specifically and selectively to nucleicacid molecules expressed in a plant cell. Such an array is exemplifiedherein by a GeneChip® Arabidopsis Genome Array (Affymetrix; see Example1). In general, an array of probes that is “representative” of a plantgenome will identify at least about 30% or the expressed nucleic acidmolecules in a plant cell, generally at least about 50% or 70%,particularly at least about 80% or 90%, and preferably will identify allof the expressed nucleic acid molecules. It should be recognized thatthe greater the representation, the more likely all nucleotide sequencesof cluster of stress-regulated genes will be identified.

A method of the invention is exemplified in Example 1, wherein clustersof Arabidopsis genes induced to cold, to increased salinity, toincreased osmotic pressure, and to a combination of the above threestress conditions were identified. Based on the present disclosure, theartisan readily can obtain nucleic acid samples for Arabidopsis plantsexposed to other stress conditions, or combinations of stressconditions, and identify clusters of genes induced in response to thestress conditions. Similarly, the method is readily adaptable toidentifying clusters of stress-regulated genes expressed in other plantspecies, particularly commercially valuable plant species, where asubstantial amount of information is known regarding the genome.

The clusters of genes identified herein include those clusters of genesthat are induced or repressed in response to a combination of stressconditions, but not to any of the stress conditions alone; and clustersof genes that are induced or repressed in response to a selected stresscondition, but not to other stress conditions tested. Furthermore,clusters of genes that respond to a stress condition in a temporallyregulated manner are also included, such as gene clusters that areinduced early (for example, within about 3 hours), late (for example,after about 8 to 24 hours), or continuously in a stress response. Inaddition, the genes within a cluster are represented by a variety ofcellular proteins, including transcription factors, enzymes such askinases, channel proteins, and the like (see Tables 1 and 29-31). Thus,the present invention further characterizes nucleotide sequences thatpreviously were known to encode cellular peptides by classifying themwithin clusters of stress-regulated genes.

The present invention additionally relates to a method of identifying astress condition to which a plant cell was exposed. Such a method can beperformed, for example, by contacting nucleic acid molecules expressedin the plant cell and an array of probes representative of the plantcell genome; and detecting a profile of expressed nucleic acid moleculescharacteristic of a stress response, thereby identifying the stresscondition to which the plant cell was exposed. The contacting generallyis under conditions that allow for selective hybridization of a nucleicacid molecule with probe having sufficient complementarity, for example,under stringent hybridization conditions. The profile can becharacteristic of exposure to a single stress condition, for example, anabnormal level of cold, osmotic pressure, or salinity (Tables 3-14), orcan be characteristic of exposure to more than one stress condition(Tables 15-26, for example, cold, increased osmotic pressure andincreased salinity (see Tables 24-26).

The method can be practiced using at least one nucleic acid probe andcan identify one or combination of stress conditions by detectingaltered expression of one or a plurality of polynucleotidesrepresentative of plant stress-regulated genes. As used herein, the term“at least one” includes one, two, three or more, for example, five, ten,twenty, fifty or more polynucleotides, nucleic acid probes, and thelike. The term “plurality” is used herein to mean two or more, forexample, three, four, five or more, including ten, twenty, fifty or morepolynucleotides, nucleic acid probes, and the like.

In a method of the invention, nucleic acid samples from the plant cellsto be collected can be contacted with an array, then the profile can becompared with known expression profiles prepared from nucleic acidsamples of plants exposed to a known stress condition or combination ofstress conditions. By creating a panel of such profiles, representativeof various stress conditions, an unknown stress condition to which aplant was exposed can be identified simply by comparing the unknownprofile with the known profiles and determining which known profile thatmatches the unknown profile. Preferably, the comparison is automated.Such a method can be useful, for example, to identify a cause of damageto a crop, where the condition causing the stress is not known orgradually increases over time. For example, accumulation in soils overtime of salts from irrigation water can result in gradually decreasingcrop yields. Because the accumulation is gradual, the cause of thedecreased yield may not be readily apparent. Using the present methods,it is possible to evaluate the stress to which the plants are exposed,thus revealing the cause of the decreased yields.

The present invention, therefore includes a computer readable mediumcontaining executable instructions form receiving expression data forsequences substantially similar to any of those disclosed herein andcomparing expression data from a test plant to a reference plant thathas been exposed to an abiotic stress. Also provided is acomputer-readable medium containing sequence data for sequencessubstantially similar to any of the sequences described herein, or thecomplements thereof, and a module for comparing such sequences to othernucleic acid sequences.

Also provided are plants and plant cells comprising plantstress-regulatory elements of the present invention operably linked to anucleotide sequence encoding a detectable signal. Such plants can beused as diagnostic or “sentinel” plants to provide early warning thatnearby plants are being stressed so that appropriate actions can betaken. In one embodiment, the signal is one that alters the appearanceof the plant. For example, an osmotic stress regulatory element of thepresent invention can be operably linked to a nucleotide sequenceencoding a fluorescent protein such as green fluorescent protein. Whensubjected to osmotic stress, the expression of the green fluorescentprotein in the sentinel plant provides a visible signal so thatappropriate actions can be taken to remove or alleviate the stress. Theuse of fluorescent proteins in plants is well known (see, for example,in Leffel et al., BioTechniques 23:912, 1997).

The invention further relates to a method of identifying an agent thatmodulates the activity of a stress-regulated regulatory element of aplant. As used herein, the term “modulate the activity,” when used inreference to a plant stress-regulated regulatory element, means thatexpression of a polynucleotide from the regulatory element is increasedor decreased. In particular, expression can be increased or decreasedwith respect to the basal activity of the promoter, i.e., the level ofexpression, if any, in the absence of a stress condition that normallyinduces expression from the regulatory element; or can be increased ordecreased with respect to the level of expression in the presence of theinducing stress condition. As such, an agent can act as a mimic of astress condition, or can act to modulate the response to a stresscondition.

Such a method can be performed, for example, by contacting theregulatory element with an agent suspected of having the ability tomodulate the activity of the regulatory element, and detecting a changein the activity of the regulatory element. In one embodiment, theregulatory element can be operatively linked to a heterologouspolynucleotide encoding a reporter molecule, and an agent that modulatesthe activity of the stress-regulated regulatory element can beidentified by detecting a change in expression of the reporter moleculedue to contacting the regulatory element with the agent. Such a methodcan be performed in vitro in a plant cell-free system, or in a plantcell in culture or in a plant in situ.

A method of the invention also can be performed by contacting the agentis contacted with a genetically modified cell or a transgenic plantcontaining an introduced plant stress-regulated regulatory element, andan agent that modulates the activity of the regulatory element isidentified by detecting a phenotypic change in the modified cell ortransgenic plant.

A method of the invention can be performed in the presence or absence ofthe stress condition to which the particularly regulatory element isresponsive. As such, the method can identify an agent that modulates theactivity of plant stress-regulated promoter in response to the stress,for example, an agent that can enhance the stress response or can reducethe stress response. In particular, a method of the invention canidentify an agent that selectively activates the stress-regulatedregulatory elements of a cluster of plant stress-regulated genes, butdoes not affect the activity of other stress-regulated regulatory genes.As such, the method provides a means to identify an agent that acts as astress mimic. Such agents can be particularly useful to prepare a plantto an expected stress condition. For example, a agent that acts as acold mimic can be applied to a field of plants prior to the arrival ofan expected cold front. Thus, the cold stress response can be inducedprior to the actual cold weather, thereby providing the plants with theprotection of the stress response, without the plants suffering from anyinitial damage due to the cold. Similarly, an osmotic pressure mimic canbe applied to a crop of plants prior a field being flooded by a risingriver.

In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method formarker-assisted selection. Marker-assisted selection involves theselection of plants having desirable phenotypes based on the presence ofparticular nucleotide sequences (“markers”). The use of markers allowsplants to be selected early in development, often before the phenotypewould normally be manifest. Because it allows for early selection,marker-assisted selection decreases the amount of time need forselection and thus allows more rapid genetic progress.

Briefly, marker-assisted selection involves obtaining nucleic acid froma plant to be selected. The nucleic acid obtained is then probed withprobes that selectively hybridize under stringent, preferably highlystringent, conditions to a nucleotide sequence or sequences associatedwith the desired phenotype. In one embodiment, the probes hybridize toany of the stress-responsive genes or regulatory regions disclosedherein, for example, any one of SEQ ID NOS:1-2703. The presence of anyhybridization products formed is detected and plants are then selectedon the presence or absence of the hybridization products.

The following examples are intended to illustrate but not limit theinvention.

EXAMPLE 1 Profiling of Plant Stress-Regulated Genes

This example demonstrates that clusters of stress-regulated genes can beidentified in plant cells exposed to various stress conditions, eitheralone or in combination.

A GeneChip® Arabidopsis Genome Array (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, Calif.)was used to identify clusters of genes that were coordinately induced inresponse to various stress conditions. The GeneChip® Arabidopsis GenomeArray contains probes synthesized in situ and is designed to measuretemporal and spatial gene expression of approximately 8700 genes ingreater than 100 EST clusters. The sequences used to develop the arraywere obtained from GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) incollaboration with Torrey Mesa Research Institute (San Diego, Calif.),formerly known as Novartis Agriculture Discovery Institute. Eightypercent of the nucleotide sequences represented on the array arepredicted coding sequences from genomic BAC entries; twenty percent arehigh quality cDNA sequences. The array also contains over 100 ESTclusters that share homology with the predicted coding sequences fromBAC clones (see, for example, world wide web at address (url)“affymetrix.com/products/Arabidopsis_content.html”.

The Affymetrix GeneChip® array was used to define nucleotidesequences/pathways affected by various abiotic stresses and to definewhich are uniquely regulated by one stress and those that respond tomultiple stress, and to identify candidate nucleotide sequences forscreening for insertional mutants. Of the approximately 8,700 nucleotidesequences represented on the Affymetrix GeneChip® array, 2862 nucleotidesequences showed at least a 2-fold change in expression in at least onesample, relative to no-treatment controls. Of those 2,862 nucleotidesequences 1,335 were regulated only by cold stress, 166 were regulatedonly mannitol stress and 209 were regulated only by saline stress.Furthermore, of the 2,862 nucleotide sequences 123 nucleotide sequenceswere regulated by salt and mannitol stress, 293 were regulated bymannitol and cold stress, 274 were regulated by cold and saline stressand 462 were regulated by cold, mannitol-and salt. Of the 2,862nucleotide sequences, 771 passed the higher stringency of showing atleast a 2-fold change in expression in at least 2 samples, relative tocontrol. And, 508 of the 771 nucleotide sequences were found in anin-house collection of insertion mutants.

The following describes in more detail how the experiments were done.Transcriptional profiling was performed by hybridizing fluorescencelabeled cRNA with the oligonucleotides probes on the chip, washing, andscanning. Each gene is represented on the chip by about sixteenoligonucleotides (25-mers). Expression level is related to fluorescenceintensity. Starting material contained 1 to 10 Tg total RNA; detectionspecificity was about 1:10⁶; approximately a 2-fold change wasdetectable, with less than 2% false positive; the dynamic range wasapproximately 500×. Nucleotide sequences having up to 70% to 80%identity could be discriminated using this system.

Seven day old axenic Arabidopsis seedlings were transferred to Magentaboxes with rafts floating on MS medium. Three weeks later (28 day oldseedlings), stresses were applied as follows: Control—no treatment;Cold—Magenta box placed in ice; Mannitol—medium+200 mM mannitol;Salt—medium+100 mM NaCl. Tissue samples were collected at 3 hours and 27hours into the stress, roots and aerial portions were harvested, RNA waspurified, and the samples were analyzed using the GeneChip® ArabidopsisGenome Array (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, Calif.) following themanufacturer's protocol.

Raw fluorescence values as generated by Affymetrix software wereprocessed as follows: the values were brought into Microsoft Excel andvalues of 25 or less were set to 25 (an empirically determined baseline,Zhu and Wang, Plant Physiol. 124:1472-1476; 2000). The values from thestressed samples were then converted to fold change relative to controlby dividing the values from the stressed samples by the values from theno-treatment control samples. Expression patterns that were altered atleast 2-fold with respect to the control were selected. This method gavevery robust results and resulted in a larger number of nucleotidesequences called as stress-regulated than previous methods hadpermitted.

Based on the profiles obtained following hybridization of nucleic acidmolecules obtained from plant cells exposed to various stress conditionsto the probes in the microarray, clusters of nucleotide sequences thatwere altered in response to the stress conditions were identified (seeTables 3-6, cold responsive; Tables 7-10, salt (saline) responsive;Tables 11 to 14, mannitol (osmotic) responsive; Tables 15-17, cold andmannitol responsive; Tables 18-20, 6 salt and cold responsive; Tables21-23, salt and mannitol responsive; Tables 24-26, cold, salt andmannitol responsive. Examples of plant gene sequences that varied inexpression at least two-fold in response to a combination of cold,saline and osmotic stress in root cells and leaf cells are shown inTables 27 and 28, respectively. In addition, examples of plant genesequences that encode transcription factors (Table 29), phosphatases(Table 30), and kinases (Table 31) and that varied at least two-fold inresponse to a combination of cold, saline and osmotic stress areprovided.

Affymetrix ID numbers and corresponding SEQ ID NOS: for the respectiveArabidopsis nucleotide sequences are provided Tables 3-26, and can beused to determine SEQ ID NOS: for the sequences shown by Affymetrix IDnumber in Tables 27-31. The Affymetrix ID number refers to a particularnucleotide sequence on the GeneChip® Arabidopsis Genome Array. In somecases, a particular plant stress-regulated gene sequence hybridized tomore than one nucleotide sequence on the GeneChip® Arabidopsis GenomeArray (see, for example, Table 3, where SEQ ID NO:36 is shown to havehybridized to the 12187_AT and 15920_I_AT nucleotide sequences on theGeneChip®). In addition, it should be recognized that the disclosedsequences are not limited to coding sequences but, in some cases,include 5′ untranslated sequences (see Table 2) or a longest codingregion. As such, while the sequences set forth as SEQ ID NOS:1-2073generally start with an ATG codon, in most cases each comprises a longernucleotide sequence, including a regulatory region (see Table 2).

The results disclosed herein demonstrate that several polynucleotides,some of which were known to function as transcription factors, enzymes,and structural proteins, also are involved in the response of a plantcell to stress. The identification of the clusters of stress-regulatedgenes as disclosed herein provides a means to identify stress-regulatedregulatory elements present in Arabidopsis thaliana nucleotidesequences, including consensus regulatory elements. It should berecognized, however that the regulatory elements of the plant genescomprising a sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOS:156, 229, 233, 558,573, 606, 625, 635, 787, and 813, which previously have been describedas cold regulated genes, are not encompassed within the stress-regulatedgene regulatory element of the invention, and the regulatory elements ofthe plant genes comprising the nucleotide sequences set forth as SEQ IDNOS:1263, 1386, 1391, 1405, 1445, 1484, 1589, 1609, 1634, 1726, 1866,1918, and 1928, which previously have been identified as genes that areresponsive to a single stress condition such as cold or saline stress,are not encompassed within the plant stress-regulated gene regulatoryelements of the invention to the extent that they conferstress-regulated expression only with respect to the known singlestress. Furthermore, the identification of the Arabidopsisstress-regulated genes provides a means to identify the correspondinghomologs and orthologs in other plants, including commercially valuablefood crops such as wheat, rice, soy, and barley, and ornamental plants.BLASTN and BLASTP searches to identify such sequences revealed thepolynucleotide sequences set forth in Table 32, which is on the CD-Rcompact disc submitted herewith.

Although the invention has been described with reference to the aboveexample, it will be understood that modifications and variations areencompassed within the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly,the invention is limited only by the claims, which follow Tables 1 to31.

TABLE 1 SEQUENCE DESCRIPTIONS Seq ID Description 1 unknown protein 2unknown protein 3 unknown protein 4 putative auxin-induced protein 5unknown protein 6 hypothetical protein 7 putative protein 8 unknownprotein 9 unknown protein 10 unknown protein 11 putative protein 12Thioredoxin-like protein 13 putative RNA helicase 14 putative protein 15putative protein 16 RING zinc finger protein, putative 17 putativecyclin 18 putative protein 19 putative protein 20 unknown protein 21putative protein 22 putative protein 23 hypothetical protein 24 unknownprotein 25 hypothetical protein 26 unknown protein 27 unknown protein 28unknown protein 29 unknown protein 30 putative protein 31 putativeprotein 32 putative protein 33 unknown protein 34 putative ribonucleaseIII 35 unknown protein 36 unknown protein 37 unknown protein 38 unknownprotein 39 unknown protein 40 putative histidine kinase 41scarecrow-like 7 (SCL7) 42 putative protein 43 No function assigned byTIGR 44 unknown protein 45 unknown protein 46 succinyl-CoA-ligase alphasubunit 47 putative protein 48 CLV1 receptor kinase like protein 49putative receptor-like protein kinase 50 putative squalene synthase 51putative receptor protein kinase 52 somatic embryogenesis receptor- likekinase, putative 53 putative protein 54 putative beta-glucosidase 55multi-drug resistance protein 56 receptor protein kinase (TMK1),putative 57 putative receptor-like protein kinase 58 putative pectatelyase 59 putative protein kinase 60 putative peroxidase 61 cytochromeP450-like protein 62 putative beta-amylase 63 monosaccharide transporterSTP3 64 Lycopersicon esculentum proteinase TMP, Pir2:T07617 65 putativereceptor-like protein kinase 66 G-box-binding factor 1 67 amino acidcarrier, putative 68 myb-related protein 69 No function assigned by TIGR70 SNF1 like protein kinase 71 Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase-like protein72 putative protein kinase 73 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein U1A 74ras-like GTP-binding protein 75 oleoyl-[acyl-carrier-protein]hydrolase-like protein 76 putative heat shock transcription factor 77putative protein 78 membrane-bound small GTP-binding-like protein 79putative protein (fragment) 80 indole-3-acetate beta-glucosyltransferase like protein 81 HD-zip transcription factor (athb-8)82 putative cAMP-dependent protein kinase 83 glucuronosyl transferase-like protein 84 putative leucine-rich repeat disease resistance protein85 98b like protein 86 putative receptor-like protein kinase 87 IAA-Alahydrolase (IAR3) 88 putative AP2 domain transcription factor 89 putativeexpansin 90 putative Ap2 domain protein 91 expansin (At-EXP1) 92cytochrome P450-like protein 93 putative ATP-dependent RNA helicase A 94unknown protein 95 predicted protein 96 putative glucosyltransferase 97unknown protein 98 putative xyloglucan- specific glucanase 99 cysteinesynthase 100 clathrin assembly protein AP19 homolog 101 dynein lightchain like protein 102 chaperonin CPN10 103 putative bHLH transcriptionfactor 104 putative glyoxysomal malate dehydrogenase precursor 105ATP-dependent RNA helicase, putative 106 chlorophyll synthetase 107similar to epoxide hydrolases 108 putative protein 109 unknown protein110 hypothetical protein 111 putative membrane transporter 112 putativetyrosyl-tRNA synthetase 113 ARGININE/SERINE-RICH SPLICING FACTOR RSP31114 putative oxidoreductase 115 unknown protein 116 linker histoneprotein, putative 117 hypothetical protein 118 putative protein 119putative mitochondrial carrier protein 120 putative transcription factor121 MYB-related protein 122 myb-related transcription factor, putative123 unknown protein 124 unknown protein 125 putative glycine-richprotein 126 No function assigned by TIGR 127 unknown protein 128 unknownprotein 129 unknown protein 130 unknown protein 131 putative membranechannel protein 132 putative protein 133 unknown protein 134 gammaglutamyl hydrolase, putative 135 40S ribosomal protein S5 136 DnaJ-likeprotein 137 40S ribosomal protein S26 138 putative WRKY-type DNA bindingprotein 139 putative protein 140 hypothetical protein 141 putativeubiquitin- conjugating enzyme 142 peptidylprolyl isomerase ROC1 143glyceraldehyde-3- phosphate dehydrogenase C subunit (GapC) 144 Nofunction assigned by TIGR 145 putative protein 146 putative thioredoxin147 thioredoxin h, putative 148 thioredoxin-like 149 allene oxidesynthase (emb|CAA73184.1) 150 anthranilate synthase component I-1precursor (sp|P32068) 151 CELL DIVISION CONTROL PROTEIN 2 HOMOLOG A 152protein kinase cdc2 homolog B 153 ethylene responsive element bindingfactor 1 (frameshift !) 154 ethylene responsive element binding factor 2(ATERF2) (sp|O80338) 155 ethylene responsive element binding factor 5(ATERF5) (sp|O80341) 156 glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase 157photomorphogenesis repressor (COP1) 158 unknown protein 159 DNA(cytosine-5)- methyltransferase (DNA methyltransferase) (DNA metase)(sp|P34881) 160 PROLIFERA 161 putative photomorphogenesis repressorprotein 162 SNF1-like protein kinase(Akin11) 163 thioredoxin h 164thioredoxin 165 Ca2+-dependent lipid-binding protein, putative 166putative auxin-induced protein 167 putative bZIP transcription factor168 hypothetical protein 169 putative AVR9 elicitor response protein 170putative serine/threonine protein kinase 171 bZIP transcription factorATB2 172 putative spliceosome associated protein 1733-hydroxyisobutyryl-coenzyme A hydrolase-like protein 174 putativeprotein 175 putative Mutator-like transposase 176 putative protein 177unknown protein 178 putative protein 179 putative protein 180 putativegalactinol synthase 181 putative transcriptional regulator 182 nuclearmatrix constituent protein 1 (NMCP1)-like 183 putative DNA-bindingprotein RAV2 184 No function assigned by TIGR 185 basic blue protein, 5′partial 186 unknown protein 187 putative calcium-binding protein,calreticulin 188 putative pyrophosphate-fructose-6- phosphate1-phosphotransferase 189 ribosomal protein L11, cytosolic 190 putativedTDP-glucose 4-6- dehydratase 191 40S ribosomal protein S20-like protein192 60S ribosomal protein L24 193 coatomer-like protein, epsilon subunit194 glycoprotein(EP1), putative 195 putative SPLI-related protein 196unknown protein 197 putative transport protein SEC61 beta-subunit 198unknown protein 199 putative cytochrome P450 200 UTP-glucoseglucosyltransferase-like protein 201 60S ribosomal protein L23 202 40Sribosomal protein S17 203 40S ribosomal protein S26 204 proteintranslation factor Suil homolog, putative 205 unknown protein 206 gammaglutamyl hydrolase, putative 207 dTDP-glucose 4,6- dehydratase, putative208 extensin-like protein 209 unknown protein 210 protein phosphatase2C- like protein 211 ubiquitin-like protein 212 protein phosphatase2C-like protein 213 unknown protein 214 putative RING zinc fingerankyrin protein 215 unknown protein 216 putative rubisco subunitbinding-protein alpha subunit 217 putative acetone- cyanohydrin lyase218 putative isoamylase 219 putative protein 220 HSP associated proteinlike 221 60S ribosomal protein L39 222 unknown protein 223 putative SF16protein {Helianthus annuus} 224 unknown protein 225 thioredoxin 226trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (AtTPPB) 227 chlorophyll a/b-bindingprotein 228 class IV chitinase (CHIV) 229 chalcone synthase (naringenin-chalcone synthase) (testa 4 protein) (sp|P13114) 230 unknown protein 231cinnamyl-alcohol dehydrogenase ELI3-2 232 farnesyl-pyrophosphatesynthetase FPS2 233 phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase234 heat shock transcription factor HSF4 235 heat shock protein 101 23617.6 kDa heat shock protein (AA 1-156) 237 heat shock protein 17.6A 238heat-shock protein 239 HY5 240 putative auxin-induced protein, IAA12 241early auxin-induced protein, IAA19 242 auxin-inducible gene (IAA2) 243putative protein 244 putative choline kinase 245 thymidylate kinase-likeprotein 246 CTP synthase like protein 247 putative protein 248 putativeamidase 249 4-alpha-glucanotransferase 250 hypothetical protein 251similar to auxin-induced protein 252 putative protein 253 putativeprotein 254 putative protein 255 hyuC-like protein 256 putativetetracycline transporter protein 257 similar to early nodulins 258putative protein 259 putative peptidyl-prolyl cis- trans isomerase 260unknown protein 261 unknown protein 262 putative endochitinase 263putative ABC transporter 264 No function assigned by TIGR 265CONSTANS-like B-box zinc finger protein 266 unknown protein 267 unknownprotein 268 putative mitochondrial processing peptidase alpha subunit269 putative pre-mRNA splicing factor 270 putative phosphatidylserinedecarboxylase 271 unknown protein 272 unknown protein 273 unknownprotein 274 putative casein kinase I 275 unknown protein 276 60Sribosomal protein L23A 277 putative mitochondrial dicarboxylate carrierprotein 278 enoyl-ACP reductase (enr- A) 279 putative isoamylase 280formamidase-like protein 281 reticuline oxidase-like protein 282 unknownprotein 283 putative transketolase precursor 284 putative protein 285unknown protein 286 unknown protein 287 unknown protein 288 putativeesterase D 289 predicted protein of unknown function 290 unknown protein291 putative indole-3-glycerol phosphate synthase 292 isopentenylpyrophosphate:dimethyllallyl pyrophosphate isomerase 293 kinaseassociated protein phosphatase 294 putative K+ channel, beta subunit 295KNAT1 homeobox-like protein 296 PSI type II chlorophyll a/b-bindingprotein, putative 297 transcription factor 298 putative WD-40 repeatprotein, MSI2 299 WD-40 repeat protein (MSI3) 300 putative WD-40 repeatprotein, MSI4 301 unknown protein 302 hypothetical protein 303 putativeprotein 304 No function assigned by TIGR 305 polyphosphoinositidebinding protein, putative 306 hypothetical protein 307 unknown protein308 chloroplast ribosomal L1-like protein 309 cold-regulated proteincor15b precursor 310 cyanohydrin lyase like protein 311 putativereplication protein Al 312 putative protein 313 possibleapospory-associated like protein 314 DNA binding protein GT-1, putative315 AT-hook DNA-binding protein (AHP1) 316 putative phospholipase 317chloroplast FtsH protease, putative 318 enoyl-CoA hydratase like protein319 berberine bridge enzyme- like protein 320 putative sugar transporter321 unknown protein 322 No function assigned by TIGR 323 hypotheticalprotein 324 putative acidic ribosomal protein 325 putative protein 326unknown protein 327 hypothetical protein 328 putative protein 329dihydroxypolyprenylbenzoate methyltransferase 330 unknown protein 331myb-related protein 332 No function assigned by TIGR 333 putativeprotein 334 putative disease resistance response protein 335hypothetical protein 336 No function assigned by TIGR 337 starchbranching enzyme II 338 No function assigned by TIGR 339 putativeenolase (2- phospho-D-glycerate hydroylase) 340 putative protein kinase341 HD-Zip protein, putative 342 putative protein kinase 343phenylalanyl-trna synthetase-like protein 344 putative aconitase 345NAM(no apical meristem) protein, putative 346 unknown protein 347putative phosphomannomutase 348 putative farnesylated protein 349unknown protein 350 water stress-induced protein, putative 351 unknownprotein 352 unknown protein 353 PEROXISOMAL MEMBRANE PROTEIN PMP22 354putative peroxisomal membrane carrier protein 355 putative protein 356unknown protein 357 putative protein 358 putative protein 359argininosuccinate synthase-like protein 360 1-phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate phosphodiesterase 361 putative JUN kinase activator protein362 putative 60S ribosomal protein L35 363 nucleoid DNA-binding proteincnd41-like protein 364 SigA binding protein 365 hypothetical protein 366putative protein kinase 367 unknown protein 368 regulatory proteinNPR1-like; transcription factor inhibitor I kappa B-like 369 putativeprotein 370 hypothetical protein 371 phosphoribosylanthranilateisomerase 372 phosphoribosylanthranilate isomerase 373 sterolglucosyltransferase, putative 374 putative gigantea protein 375 putativeMYB family transcription factor 376 hypothetical protein 377hypothetical protein 378 predicted protein 379 cytochrome P450, putative380 putative Na+ dependent ileal bile acid transporter 381 unknownprotein 382 RING-H2 finger protein RHF1a 383 putative protein 384unknown protein 385 putative protein 386 putative auxin-regulatedprotein 387 hypothetical protein 388 unknown protein 389 unknown protein390 putative protein 391 putative protein 392 unknown protein 393histone H1 394 Argonaute (AGO 1)-like protein 395 unknown protein 396putative protein with C- terminal RING finger 397 unknown protein 398unknown protein 399 unknown protein 400 unknown protein 401 unknownprotein 402 putative copper amine oxidase 403 unknown protein 404unknown protein 405 unknown protein 406 putative protein 407 putativeprotein 408 unknown protein 409 unknown protein 410 putative protein 411putative protein 412 unknown protein 413 serine/threonine kinase- likeprotein 414 alcohol dehydrogenase, putative 415 anthranilatephosphoribosyltransferase, chloroplast precursor (sp|Q02166) 416phytochrome C (sp|P14714) 417 putative phytochrome-associated protein 3418 receptor serine/threonine kinase PR5K 419 Ran-binding protein(atranbp1a) 420 small Ras-like GTP-binding protein (gb|AAB58478.1) 421sterol-C5-desaturase 422 tryptophan synthase beta chain 1 precursor(sp|P14671) 423 thioredoxin f2 (gb|AAD35004.1) 424 No function assignedby TIGR 425 putative WRKY DNA-binding protein 426 putative protein 427unknown protein 428 unknown protein 429 14-3-3 protein homolog RCI1(pir||S47969) 430 unknown protein 431 putative CCCH-type zinc fingerprotein 432 PINHEAD (gb|AAD40098.1); translation initiation factor 433plasma membrane proton ATPase (PMA) 434 CHLOROPHYLL A-B BINDING PROTEIN4 PRECURSOR homolog 435 membrane related protein CP5, putative 436 ABCtransporter (AtMRP2) 437 putative embryo-abundant protein 438 putativeanthocyanidin-3-glucoside rhamnosyltransferase 439 putative lipidtransfer protein 440 unknown protein 441 unknown protein 442 galactinolsynthase, putative 443 putative protein 444 putative protein 445SCARECROW-like protein 446 unknown protein 447 unknown protein 448unknown protein 449 unknown protein 450 asparagine- tRNA ligase 451putative protein 452 glutamate-1-semialdehyde 2,1-aminomutase 1precursor (GSA 1) (glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase 1) (GSA-AT 1) (sp|P42799) 453 hypothetical protein 454 putative serineprotease-like protein 455 No function assigned by TIGR 456 unknownprotein 457 unknown protein 458 gamma-adaptin, putative 459 UDPrhamnose- anthocyanidin-3-glucoside rhamnosyltransferase-like protein460 carbonate dehydratase-like protein 461 putative microtubule-associated protein 462 putative ribophorin I 463 putative zinc fingerprotein 464 chloroplast FtsH protease, putative 465 putative protein 466unknown protein 467 putative LEA protein 468 putative protein 469putative protein 470 unknown protein 471 putative purple acidphosphatase 472 unknown protein 473 putative protein 474 unknown protein475 chlorophyll binding protein, putative 476 phosphoenolpyruvatecarboxylase (PPC) 477 chlorophyll a/b-binding protein- like 478 AtAGP4479 putative cryptochrome 2 apoprotein 480 type 2 peroxiredoxin,putative 481 Atpm24.1 glutathione S transferase 482 delta tonoplastintegral protein (delta-TIP) 483 20S proteasome subunit (PAA2) 484dormancy-associated protein, putative 485 putative cytidine deaminase486 No function assigned by TIGR 487 putative phospholipase D-gamma 488cell elongation protein, Dwarf1 489 germin-like protein 490 hevein-likeprotein precursor (PR- 4) 491 rac-like GTP binding protein (ARAC5) 492phosphoprotein phosphatase, type 1 catalytic subunit 493ubiquitin-protein ligase UBC9 494 xyloglucan endotransglycosylase-related protein XTR-7 495 cysteine synthase 496 putative villin 2 497glutathione S-transferase 498 5-adenylylsulfate reductase 499 argininedecarboxylase 500 ATHP2, putative 501 ornithine carbamoyltransferaseprecursor 502 puative protein 503 putative protein 504 unknown protein505 putative protein 506 putative protein 507 unknown protein 508unknown protein 509 unknown protein 510 unknown protein 511 hypotheticalprotein 512 putative protein 513 putative DnaJ protein 514 plastocyanin515 unknown protein 516 unknown protein 517 unknown protein 518 unknownprotein 519 unknown protein 520 unknown protein 521 putativeATP-dependent RNA helicase 522 non-race specific disease resistanceprotein (NDR1) 523 hypothetical protein 524 putative protein 525putative protein 526 putative protein 527 copper transport protein 528putative protein 529 unknown protein 530 unknown protein 531 unknownprotein 532 putative protein kinase 533 unknown protein 534 putativeprotein 535 putative protein 536 hypothetical protein 537 putativeprotein 538 putative AP2 domain transcription factor 539 putativenitrilase 540 putative protein 541 putative tetrahydrofolate synthase542 heat-shock protein 543 unkown protein 544 unknown protein 545histone H4 546 hypothetical protein 547 unknown protein 548 putativeprotein 549 predicted protein 550 putative dihydrolipoamidesuccinyltransferase 551 actin3 552 putative CCCH-type zinc fingerprotein 553 MAP kinase kinase 2 554 ethylene-insensitive3-like 1 (EIL1)555 histidine transport protein (PTR2- B) 556 putative auxin-inducedprotein AUX2-11 557 hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase cytoplasmic(glyoxalase II) (GLX II) 558 delta-8 sphingolipid desaturase 559cellulose synthase catalytic subunit (Ath-A) 560 nitrate transporter(NTL1) 561 DNA-binding homeotic protein Athb-2 562 hypothetical protein563 aspartate aminotransferase 564 4-coumarate:CoA ligase 1 565 pyruvatedehydrogenase E1 beta subunit, putative 566 nucleotide diphosphatekinase Ia (emb|CAB58230.1) 567 chloroplast Cpn21 protein 568 ATPdependent copper transporter 569 very-long-chain fatty acid condensingenzyme (CUT1) 570 putative purine-rich single-stranded DNA-bindingprotein 571 serine/threonine protein phosphatase (type 2A) 572isopentenyl diphosphate:dimethylallyl diphosphate isomerase (IPP2) 573putative c2h2 zinc finger transcription factor 574 putative 20Sproteasome beta subunit PBC2 575 nucleoside diphosphate kinase 3 (ndpk3)576 ras-related small GTP-binding protein 577 putative 4-coumarate:CoAligase 2 578 transcription factor HBP-1b homolog (sp|P43273) 579 biotinsynthase (Bio B) 580 homeobox protein HAT22 581 putative preproteintranslocase SECY protein 582 carbamoylphosphate synthetase, putative 583putative protein kinase, ADK 1 584 putative nuclear DNA-binding proteinG2p 585 hypothetical protein 586 hypothetical protein 587 unknownprotein 588 unknown protein 589 molybdopterin synthase (CNX2) 590putative ribosomal protein L6 591 unknown protein 592 En/Spm-liketransposon protein 593 putative protein 594 putative protein 595 unknownprotein 596 hypothetical protein 597 unknown protein 598 unknown protein599 putative lysosomal acid lipase 600 unknown protein 601 unknownprotein 602 NifS-like aminotranfserase 603 actin 8 604 hypotheticalprotein 605 putative protein 606 heat-shock protein (At- hsc70-3) 607putative protein disulfide isomerase precursor 608 adenosine nucleotidetranslocator 609 photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex protein 3-like610 sedoheptulose-bisphosphatase precursor 611 glutathione S-transferase(GST6) 612 geranylgeranyl reductase 613 hypothetical protein 614hypothetical protein 615 phosphoribulokinase precursor 616 high mobilitygroup protein (HMG1), putative 617 protease inhibitor II 618 proteaseinhibitor II 619 cytochrome P450 90A1 (sp|Q42569) 620 unknown protein621 heat shock protein 90 622 tubulin beta-9 chain 623 putativeubiquitin carboxyl terminal hydrolase 624 protein kinase 625DRE/CRT-binding protein DREB1C 626 histidyl-tRNA synthetase 627 splicingfactor, putative 628 glutamyl-tRNA synthetase 629 putative RING zincfinger protein 630 phytochelatin synthase (gb|AAD41794.1) 631 putativeC2H2-type zinc finger protein 632 putative ligand-gated ion channelprotein 633 putative ribosomal-protein S6 kinase (ATPK6) 634MOLYBDOPTERIN BIOSYNTHESIS CNX1 PROTEIN 635 temperature-sensitiveomega-3 fatty acid desaturase, chloroplast precursor (sp|P48622) 636adenylosuccinate synthetase 637 putative 14-3-3 protein 638 putativecytochrome P450 639 putative two-component response regulator 3 protein640 putative RING-H2 zinc finger protein ATL6 641 No function assignedby TIGR 642 small zinc finger-like protein 643 hypothetical protein 644MAP kinase (ATMPK6) 645 vacuolar ATP synthase, putative 646 kinesin-likeprotein 647 serine/threonine-specific protein kinase NAK 648 No functionassigned by TIGR 649 ACTIN 2/7 (sp|P53492) 650 phosphoglycerate kinase,putative 651 homeotic protein BEL1 homolog 652 proline iminopeptidase653 pasticcino 1 654 serine/threonine protein kinase 655 cytochrome P450monooxygenase (CYP71B4) 656 No function assigned by TIGR 657 putativeGDSL-motif lipase/hydrolase 658 putative protein 659 unknown protein 660hypothetical protein 661 putative glycosylation enzyme 662 No functionassigned by TIGR 663 No function assigned by TIGR 664 unknown protein665 putative ABC transporter 666 nifU-like protein 667 putativereceptor-like protein kinase 668 putative disease resistance protein 669receptor-like protein kinase-like 670 ubiquitin activating enzyme 2(gb|AAB37569.1) 671 No function assigned by TIGR 672 putativereceptor-like protein kinase 673 K+ transporter, AKT1 674 shaggy-likekinase beta 675 heat shock protein 70 676 plasma membrane intrinsicprotein 1a 677 HSP90-like protein 678 histone H1, putative 679 unknownprotein 680 dnaK-type molecular chaperone hsc70.1-like 681gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase 682 peroxidase (ATP22a) 683 putativeserine carboxypeptidase precursor 684 putative dioxygenase 685 glucosetransporter 686 NOI protein, nitrate-induced 687 putative protein 688putative protein 689 unknown protein 690 putative photosystem I reactioncenter subunit II precursor 691 putative protein 692 unknown protein 693cobalamin biosynthesis protein 694 adenine nucleotide translocase 695glutathione transferase, putative 696 putative 60S ribosomal protein L21697 cytochrome P450 like protein 698 cytochrome b245 beta chain homlogRbohApl08, putative 699 RNA helicase, DRH1 700 putative aldolase 701farnesyltransferase subunit A (FTA) 702 No function assigned by TIGR 703putative putative sister- chromatide cohesion protein 704calcium-dependent protein kinase 705 serine/threonine proteinphosphatase type 2A, putative 706 40S ribosomal protein S28 (sp|P34789)707 RNA polymerase subunit 708 DNA-damage- repair/toleration proteinDRT102 709 putative C2H2-type zinc finger protein 710 putative adenosinephosphosulfate kinase 711 lipase 712 putative violaxanthin de- epoxidaseprecursor (U44133) 713 aromatic rich glycoprotein, putative 714 putativefumarase 715 flavonol synthase (FLS) (sp|Q96330) 716 response regulator5, putative 717 sulfate transporter 718 putative floral homeoticprotein, AGL9 719 putative ethylene-inducible protein 720 C-8,7 sterolisomerase 721 TCH4 protein (gb|AAA92363.1) 722 hypothetical protein 723putative urease accessory protein 724 molybdopterin synthasesulphurylase (gb|AAD18050.1) 725 putative protein 726 NBD-like protein(gb|AAD20643.1) 727 AtHVA22c 728 unknown protein 729 phytoene synthase(gb|AAB65697.1) 730 protein kinase (AME2/AFC1) 731 hypothetical protein732 cyclin-dependent protein kinase- like protein 733 photosystem IIstability/assembly factor HCF136 (sp|O82660) 734 hypothetical protein735 DNA binding-like protein 736 putative protein 737 chorismate mutase738 putative LRR receptor protein kinase 739 putative chalcone synthase740 putative protein kinase 741 replicase, putative 742 putativecysteine proteinase 743 60S ribosomal protein L36 744 unknown protein745 CLC-b chloride channel protein 746 putative ribosomal protein S14747 histone H2B like protein (emb|CAA69025.1) 748 60S ribosomal proteinL2 749 60S ribosomal protein L15 homolog 750 ribosomal protein S27 751ribosomal protein 752 60S ribosomal protein L12 753 60s ribosomalprotein L34 754 putative ribosomal protein S10 755 drought-inducedprotein like 756 blue copper-binding protein, 15K (lamin) 757calmodulin-like protein 758 putative protein 759 No function assigned byTIGR 760 alpha-mannosidase, putative 761 uncoupling protein (ucp/PUMP)762 homeodomain-like protein 763 ribosomal protein S18, putative 764similar to SOR1 from the fungus Cercospora nicotianae 765 60S ribosomalprotein L13, BBC1 protein 766 50S ribosomal protein L24, chloroplastprecursor 767 putative ribosomal protein 768 unknown protein 769aspartate aminotransferase (AAT1) 770 potassium channel protein AtKC 771unknown protein 772 peroxisomal targeting signal type 2 receptor 773putative protein 774 Ras-related GTP-binding protein (ARA-4) 775S-receptor kinase homolog 2 precursor 776 pathogenesis-related group 5protein, putative 777 Nitrilase 4 (sp|P46011) 778 biotin carboxylcarrier protein of acetyl-CoA carboxylase precursor (BCCP) (sp|Q42533)779 photosystem I reaction centre subunit psaN precursor (PSI-N)(sp|P49107) 780 3(2),5-bisphosphate nucleotidase 781 high affinity Ca2+antiporter 782 putative cytoskeletal protein 783 putative peroxidase 784respiratory burst oxidase protein 785 beta-glucosidase 786calcium-dependent protein kinase (pir||S71196) 787 phosphoinositidespecific phospholipase C 788 similarity to S-domain receptor- likeprotein kinase, Zea mays 789 mitosis-specific cyclin 1b 790 4-coumarate:CoA ligase 3 791 transcription factor IIB (TFIIB) 792 unknown protein793 hypothetical protein 794 hypothetical protein 795 sugar transporterlike protein 796 putative trypsin inhibitor 797 unknown protein 798putative multispanning membrane protein 799 receptor-like kinase,putative 800 putative inosine-5-monophosphate dehydrogenase 801inosine-5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase, putative 802 amino acid permease6 (emb|CAA65051.1) 803 NADPH-ferrihemoprotein reductase (ATR2) 804putative WRKY-type DNA binding protein 805 putative ankyrin 806 putativehexose transporter 807 aquaporin/MIP-like protein 808 Ser/Thr proteinkinase isolog 809 pectate lyase like protein 810 putative 60S ribosomalprotein L17 811 putative protein 812 unknown protein 813 phenylalanineammonia-lyase 814 putative cytochrome P450 monooxygenase 815 ARR1protein; putative 816 putative bHLH transcription factor 817aminomethyltransferase-like precursor protein 818 purple acidphosphatase precursor 819 AP2 domain containing protein, putative 820ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2-21 kD 1 (ubiquitin-protein ligase 4)(ubiquitin carrier protein 4) (sp|P42748) 821 translation initiationfactor 822 putative VAMP-associated protein 823 spermidine synthase,putative 824 putative protein 825 unknown protein 826 AtKAP alpha 827glyceraldehyde-3- phosphate dehydrogenase, putative 828 putative poly(A)binding protein 829 alpha-tubulin, putative 830serine/threonine-specific protein kinase ATPK64 (pir||S20918) 831putative aspartate-tRNA ligase 832 ras-related small GTP- bindingprotein RAB1c 833 cycloartenol synthase 834 No function assigned by TIGR835 cytochrome P450 836 GTPase AtRAB8 837 3-phosphoserine phosphatase838 transcription factor CRC 839 nuclear cap-binding protein; CBP20(gb|AAD29697.1) 840 chloroplast membrane protein (ALBINO3) 841 biotinholocarboxylase synthetase 842 expansin AtEx6 843 unknown protein 844mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase, putative 845 putative thiosulfatesulfurtransferase 846 dihydrolipoamide S- acetyltransferase 847 auxintransport protein REH1, putative 848 putative auxin transport protein849 apyrase (Atapy1) 850 root cap 1 (RCP1) 851 hypothetical protein 852putative protein 853 predicted protein of unknown function 854hypothetical protein 855 hypothetical protein 856 hypothetical protein857 putative aldehyde dehydrogenase 858 putative peroxidase 859UDP-glucose 4-epimerase-like protein 860 indole-3-acetate betaglucosyltransferase like protein 861 putative beta-1,3-glucanase 862disease resistance protein-like 863 putative respiratory burst oxidaseprotein B 864 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UBC3 865 cytoplasmicaconitate hydratase 866 NADPH oxidoreductase, putative 867 PROTEINTRANSPORT PROTEIN SEC61 GAMMA SUBUNIT-like 868 putative protein 869unknown protein 870 60S acidic ribosomal protein P2 871 No functionassigned by TIGR 872 1,4-alpha-glucan branching enzyme protein soformSBE2.2 precursor 873 calcium binding protein (CaBP-22) 874 putativephosphoglucomutase 875 shaggy-like protein kinase etha (EC 2.7.1.—) 876pyruvate decarboxylase (gb|AAB16855.1) 877 hypothetical protein 878putative protein kinase 879 putative protein kinase 880 putative leucineaminopeptidase 881 probable cytochrome P450 882 protein kinase 6-likeprotein 883 arginine methyltransferase (pam1) 884 MYB96 transcriptionfactor-like protein 885 putative protein 886 metal ion transporter 887No function assigned by TIGR 888 flax rust resistance protein, putative889 fructose-2,6 bisphosphatase, putative 890 exonuclease RRP41 891squamosa promoter binding protein-like 2 (emb|CAB56576.1) 892 putativesquamosa promoter binding protein 893 O-acetylserine(thiol) lyase,putative 894 snoRNA 895 snoRNA 896 ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase 897H+-transporting ATP synthase chain 9-like protein 898 photosystem Isubunit III precursor, putative 899 photosystem I subunit VI precursor900 auxin-binding protein 1 precursor 901 putative RAS superfamily GTP-binding protein 902 disease resistance protein-like 903 protein kinaselike protein 904 glucuronosyl transferase-like protein 905 putativehomeodomain transcription factor 906 putative flavonol reductase 907putative protein 908 salt-tolerance protein 909 40S ribosomal proteinS30 910 putative bZIP transcription factor 911 putative protein 912putative cinnamoyl CoA reductase 913 unknown protein 914 putativeRNA-binding protein 915 phosphatidylinositol synthase (PIS1) 916 unknownprotein 917 hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein homolog 918 50S ribosomalprotein L15, chloroplast precursor 919 unknown protein 920 putative YME1ATP-dependant protease 921 unknown protein 922 putative ribosomalprotein L28 923 unknown protein 924 putative protein 925 protein ch-42precursor, chloroplast 926 protein serine/threonine kinase, putative 927beta-VPE 928 putative vacuolar sorting receptor 929 putative translationinitiation factor IF-2 930 predicted protein of unknown function 931putative protein 932 hypothetical protein 933 hypothetical protein 934phosphate transporter, putative 935 No function assigned by TIGR 936beta subunit of protein farnesyl transferase ERA1 937 putative glutamatedecarboxylase 938 putative indole-3-acetate beta-glucosyltransferase 939putative receptor-like protein kinase 940 UDP-galactose 4-epimerase-like protein 941 putative proliferating cell nuclear antigen,PCNA 942 ubiquitin conjugating enzyme E2 (UBC13) 943 cyclophilin (CYP2)944 cystatin (emb|CAA03929.1) 945 putative alcohol dehydrogenase 946acidic ribosomal protein p1 947 glutathione transferase AtGST 10(emb|CAA10457.1) 948 putative tropinone reductase 949 ZIP4, a putativezinc transporter 950 unknown protein 951 putative protein 952 putativeprotein 953 putative C2H2-type zinc finger protein 954 putative RINGzinc finger protein 955 putative microtubule- associated protein 956unknown protein 957 putative protein 958 putative protein phosphatase-2c959 V-ATPase subunit G (vag2 gene) 960 hypothetical protein 961 unknownprotein 962 unknown protein 963 unknown protein 964myrosinase-associated protein, putative 965 hypothetical protein 966hypothetical protein 967 No function assigned by TIGR 968 unknownprotein 969 hypothetical protein 970 LAX1/AUX1-like permease 971putative UDP-N- acetylglucosamine-dolichyl- phosphate N-acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase 972 chorismate mutase CM2 973 innermitochondrial membrane protein 974 DEF (CLA1) protein 975 decoy 976citrate synthase 977 myosin 978 40S ribosomal protein S19 979ripening-related protein-like 980 putative signal peptidase I 981methionyl-tRNA synthetase (AtcpMetRS) 982 ribosomal proteinprecursor-like 983 50S ribosomal protein L21 chloroplast precursor(CL21) 984 putative MYB family transcription factor 985 cyclophilin-likeprotein 986 hypothetical protein 987 naringenin 3-dioxygenase likeprotein 988 WD-repeat protein-like protein 989 putative serinecarboxypeptidase II 990 prenyltransferase, putative 991 putativeligand-gated ion channel protein 992 clathrin adaptor medium chainprotein MU1B, putative 993 No function assigned by TIGR 994 putativeTall-like non- LTR retroelement protein 995 putative 3-isopropylmalatedehydrogenase 996 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, small subunit 997unknown protein 998 unknown protein 999 unknown protein 1000hypothetical protein 1001 putative protein 1002 No function assigned byTIGR 1003 putative beta-glucosidase 1004 putative pectate lyase A11 1005putative beta-glucosidase 1006 HD-Zip protein 1007 putative ubiquitinconjugating enzyme 1008 homeobox-leucine zipper protein-like 1009cytochrome P450 like protein 1010 putative cysteine proteinase inhibitorB (cystatin B) 1011 ethylene response sensor (ERS) 1012 putative SWH1protein 1013 putative glutathione S- transferase 1014 putative protein1015 unknown protein 1016 putative protein phosphatase 2C 1017 dnaJprotein homolog atj3 1018 ferredoxin 1019 hypothetical protein 1020putative sugar transport protein, ERD6 1021 putative DnaJ protein 1022putative AP2 domain transcription factor 1023 putative protein 1024putative cyclin-dependent kinase regulatory subunit 1025 putativetropinone reductase 1026 signal response protein (GAI) 1027 putativesteroid sulfotransferase 1028 hypothetical protein 1029 nucleic acidbinding protein-like 1030 putative protein 1031 blue copper bindingprotein 1032 farnesylated protein (ATFP6) 1033 unknown protein 1034putative PCF2-like DNA binding protein 1035 teosinte branched1-likeprotein 1036 putative protein 1037 unknown protein 1038 unknown protein1039 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase, E1 component 1040 unknown protein1041 unknown protein 1042 CCAAT-binding transcription factor subunitA(CBF-A) 1043 hypothetical protein 1044 putative growth regulatorprotein 1045 putative presenilin 1046 putative expansin 1047ribosomal-like protein 1048 unknown protein 1049 unknown protein 1050putative protein 1051 putative protein 1052 unknown protein 1053 unknownprotein 1054 unknown protein 1055 unknown protein 1056 unknown protein1057 putative protein 1058 putative protein 1059 argininosuccinate lyase(AtArgH) 1060 disease resistance protein homolog 1061 aldehydedehydrogenase like protein 1062 GBF2, G-box binding factor 1063CDPK-related kinase 1064 endo-1,4-beta-glucanase 1065 putative serineprotease 1066 serine/threonine-specific kinase lecRK1 precursor, lectinreceptor-like 1067 putative MAP kinase 1068 RNase L inhibitor-likeprotein 1069 No function assigned by TIGR 1070 AP2 domain transcriptionfactor 1071 polygalacturonase isoenzyme 1 beta subunit, putative 1072putative lipid transfer protein 1073 putative protein kinase 1074putative protein 1075 ATP-dependent RNA helicase like protein 1076putative cyclic nucleotide- regulated ion channel protein 1077 COP1 likeprotein 1078 putative peroxidase 1079 putative NAK-like ser/thr proteinkinase 1080 putative cytochrome C 1081 cytochrome c 1082 putative serinecarboxypeptidase II 1083 acyl-(acyl carrier protein) thioesterase 1084DNA-binding factor, putative 1085 MAP3K delta-1 protein kinase 1086AtMlo-hl-like protein 1087 No function assigned by TIGR 1088 putativeexpansin 1089 defender against cell death protein, putative 1090glycolate oxidase-like protein 1091 putative ATP-dependent RNA helicase1092 putative protein 1093 putative HMG protein 1094 squalenemonooxygenase 2 (squalene epoxidase 2) (SE 2) (sp|O65403) 1095eukaryotic peptide chain release factor subunit 1, putative 1096auxin-induced protein-like 1097 putative lipoamide dehydrogenase 1098putative protein 1099 unknown protein 1100 putative oligopeptidetransporter 1101 putative translation elongation factor ts 1102 putativeCCAAT-binding transcription factor subunit 1103 putative ABC transporter1104 putative superoxide-generating NADPH oxidase flavocytochrome 1105aspartate kinase-homoserine dehydrogenase-like protein 1106 putativebHLH transcription factor 1107 putative geranylgeranyl transferase typeI beta subunit 1108 putative ARP2/3 protein complex subunit p41 1109sulphite reductase 1110 putative auxin-regulated protein 1111transcription factor scarecrow-like 14, putative 1112 unknown protein1113 monooxygenase 2 (MO2) 1114 putative amine oxidase 1115 zinc fingerprotein, putative 1116 DNA-binding protein, putative 1117 putativeprotein 1118 putative protein 1119 Avr9 elicitor response like protein1120 putative protein 1121 hypothetical protein 1122 putativenucleotide-sugar dehydratase 1123 UFD1 like protein 1124 putativetransprenyltransferase 1125 outward rectifying potassium channel KCO1126 unknown protein 1127 putative pectinacetylesterase 1128 putativeprotein 1129 No function assigned by TIGR 1130 unknown protein 1131unknown protein 1132 unknown protein 1133 protein phosphatase homolog(PPH1) 1134 unknown protein 1135 No function assigned by TIGR 1136unknown protein 1137 unknown protein 1138 unknown protein 1139 putativeprotein 1140 unknown protein 1141 putative ubiquinol-cytochrome-creductase 1142 unknown protein 1143 contains similarity to high-glucose-regulated protein 8 GB: AAF08813 GI: 6449083 from [Homo sapiens]1144 unknown protein 1145 putative cis-Golgi SNARE protein 1146 unknownprotein 1147 glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase 1148 No functionassigned by TIGR 1149 hypothetical protein 1150 unknown protein 1151unknown protein 1152 unknown protein 1153 scarecrow-like 3 1154 putativeproline-rich protein 1155 cytocrome c oxidoreductase like protein 1156putative carboxymethylenebutenolidase 1157 unknown protein 1158 unknownprotein 1159 unknown protein 1160 unknown protein 1161 unknown protein1162 unknown protein 1163 auxin-induced protein (IAA20) 1164 50Sribosomal protein L4 1165 putative DNA topoisomerase III beta 1166 Nofunction assigned by TIGR 1167 isp4 like protein 1168 putative proteinkinase 1169 hypothetical protein 1170 putative pyrophosphate-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase 1171 putative protein 1172 putativeprotein 1173 putative protein 1174 unknown protein 1175 unknown protein1176 putative protein 1177 putative protein 1178 unknown protein 1179unknown protein 1180 putative protein 1181 brassinosteroid insensitive 1gene (BRI1) 1182 putative receptor protein kinase 1183 vacuolar-typeH+-translocating inorganic pyrophosphatase 1184 protein kinase-likeprotein 1185 glycyl tRNA synthetase, putative 1186 subtilisinproteinase-like 1187 hypothetical protein 1188 cytochrome P450-likeprotein 1189 cytochrome p450 like protein 1190 putative protein kinase1191 pectinesterase-like protein 1192 putative receptor-like proteinkinase 1193 peroxidase ATP17a-like protein 1194 No function assigned byTIGR 1195 cellulose synthase catalytic subunit-like protein 1196RAS-related protein, RAB7 1197 putative aspartate aminotransferase 1198cyclophilin 1199 putative SF2/ASF splicing modulator, Srp30 1200putative cytochrome b5 1201 glutamyl-tRNA reductase, putative 1202putative MADS-box protein 1203 ammonium transport protein (AMT1) 1204 Nofunction assigned by TIGR 1205 putative beta-ketoacyl-CoA synthase 1206thaumatin-like protein 1207 putative methionine aminopeptidase 1208putative protein phosphatase 2C 1209 kinase-like protein 1210receptor-associated kinase isolog 1211 mitochondrial ribosomal proteinS14 1212 oleosin, 18.5K 1213 chalcone isomerase 1214 putativecyclin-dependent kinase regulatory subunit 1215 putative thaumatin-likeprotein 1216 putative two-component response regulator protein 1217 TATAbinding protein associated factor, putative 1218 predicted protein ofunknown function 1219 putative AP2 domain transcription factor 1220brassinosteroid receptor kinase, putative 1221 TINY-like protein 1222glucose-6-phosphate isomerase 1223 putative protein 1224 putative NAM(no apical meristem)-like protein 1225 unknown protein 1226 putativenucleotide-binding protein 1227 bZIP transcription factor (POSF21) 1228ubiquitin activating enzyme-like protein 1229 telomere repeat-bindingprotein 1230 unknown protein 1231 mevalonate kinase 1232 putativeprotein 1233 hypothetical protein 1234 disease resistance RPP5 likeprotein 1235 putative protein 1236 putative pectinesterase 1237 Ttg1protein (emb|CAB45372.1) 1238 FUSCA PROTEIN FUS6 1239 NHE1 Na+/H+exchanger 1240 No function assigned by TIGR 1241 Phospholipase likeprotein 1242 unknown protein 1243 unknown protein 1244 unknown protein1245 AUX1-like amino acid permease 1246 unknown protein 1247 putativeC2H2-type zinc finger protein 1248 putative protein 1249 putativeprotein 1250 putative glucosyltransferase 1251 putative lipase 1252putative protein 1253 putative thioredoxin 1254 AIG2-like protein 1255short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase like protein 1256 hypothetical protein1257 putative protein 1258 putative protein 1259 glutathione peroxidase-like protein 1260 putative protein 1261 putative disease resistanceresponse protein 1262 putative protein 1263 senescence-associatedprotein (SAG29) 1264 glycolate oxidase, putative 1265 extensin-likeprotein 1266 putative protein 1267 unknown protein 1268 putative diseaseresistance protein 1269 putative receptor-like protein kinase 1270putative receptor-like protein kinase 1271 basic chitinase 1272 putativepectin methylesterase 1273 peroxidase ATP N 1274 class 2 non-symbiotichemoglobin 1275 nitrate transporter 1276 Ca2+/H+-exchanging protein-like1277 putative protein 1278 hydroxynitrile lyase like protein 1279putative AP2 domain transcription factor 1280 pectin methylesterase,putative 1281 putative protein 1282 beta-glucosidase-like protein 1283CCAAT box binding factor/ transcription factor Hap2a 1284 putativefibrillin 1285 xyloglucan endo transglycosylase 1286 putative 10 kdchaperonin 1287 No function assigned by TIGR 1288 serine/threonineprotein kinase ATPK10 1289 putative lipase 1290 choline kinaseGmCK2p-like protein 1291 putative sugar transport protein, ERD6 1292MYB27 protein-like 1293 DNA-binding protein, putative 1294 similar tocold acclimation protein WCOR413 [Triticum aestivum] 1295 unknownprotein 1296 aquaporin (plasma membrane intrinsic protein 2B) 1297 Nofunction assigned by TIGR 1298 P-Protein-like protein 1299 No functionassigned by TIGR 1300 putative cytochrome P450 monooxygenase 1301putative cytochrome P450 monooxygenase 1302 putative thioredoxin 1303stromal ascorbate peroxidase 1304 ethylene responsive element bindingfactor-like protein (AtERF6) 1305 auxin transport protein EIR1(gb|AAC39513.1) 1306 putative CONSTANS-like B-box zinc finger protein1307 putative protein kinase 1308 mitochondrial Lon protease homolog 1precursor (sp|O64948) 1309 putative protein 1310 heme activated protein,putative 1311 putative cytochrome P450 1312 No function assigned by TIGR1313 putative lipase 1314 putative protein 1315 putative sugartransporter protein 1316 putative sucrose transport protein, SUC2 1317putative protein 1318 putative protein 1319 putative endochitinase 1320putative acetone- cyanohydrin lyase 1321 putative protein 1322calmodulin-like protein 1323 hypothetical protein 1324 cysteineproteinase like protein 1325 heat shock protein 17.6-II 1326 heat shockprotein 18 1327 Arabidopsis mitochondrion- localized small heat shockprotein (AtHSP23.6-mito) 1328 unknown protein 1329 putative WRKY-typeDNA binding protein 1330 No function assigned by TIGR 1331 hypotheticalprotein 1332 putative integral membrane protein nodulin 1333 putativeprotein 1334 unknown protein 1335 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase, smallsubunit 1336 unknown protein 1337 putative homeodomain transcriptionfactor 1338 unknown protein 1339 putative protein 1340 peroxidase ATP19a1341 putative Na+/H+ exchanging protein 1342 putative auxin-regulatedprotein 1343 unknown protein 1344 unknown protein 1345 putativetrehalose-6- phosphate synthase 1346 putative lectin 1347 Mloprotein-like 1348 unknown protein 1349 ethylene response factor,putative 1350 unknown protein 1351 unknown protein 1352 bZIPtranscription factor- like protein 1353 Medicago nodulin N21-likeprotein 1354 putative endo-1,4-beta glucanase 13551-aminocyclopropane-1- carboxylate oxidase 1356 putative anion exchangeprotein 1357 SRG1-like protein 1358 putative protein 1359 putativephi-1-like phosphate induced protein 1360 putative protein 1361 putativeembryo-abundant protein 1362 putative hydrolase 1363 unknown protein1364 unknown protein 1365 hexose transporter-like protein 1366 unknownprotein 1367 unknown protein 1368 peptide transport-like protein 1369unknown protein 1370 putative peptide transporter 1371 diseaseresistance protein, putative 1372 cysteine protease component ofprotease-inhibitor complex 1373 putative cytochrome P450 1374 putativeprotein 1375 hypothetical protein 1376 unknown protein 1377 putativephosphoribosylaminoimidazolecar boxamide formyltransferase 1378 putativeprotein 1379 HSP like protein 1380 unknown protein 1381 unknown protein1382 putative cytochrome P450 1383 similar to pectinesterase 1384putative glucosyltransferase 1385 thaumatin-like protein 1386drought-inducible cysteine proteinase RD19A precursor 1387 vegetativestorage protein Vsp2 1388 unknown protein 1389 unknown protein 1390anthranilate N- benzoyltransferase-like protein 1391 delta-1-pyrroline5- carboxylase synthetase (P5C1) 1392 glutathione S-conjugatetransporting ATPase (AtMRP1) 1393 hypothetical protein 1394 hypotheticalprotein 1395 unknown protein 1396 putative protein 1397 putative protein1398 No function assigned by TIGR 1399 unknown protein 1400 putativeprotein kinase 1401 unknown protein 1402 hypothetical protein 1403unknown protein 1404 putative calcium-binding EF-hand protein 1405cinnamyl-alcohol dehydrogenase ELI3-1 1406 putative protein 1407 unknownprotein 1408 senescence-associated protein sen1 1409 hypotheticalprotein 1410 putative cytochrome P450 1411 proline oxidase,mitochondrial precursor (osmotic stress-induced proline dehydrogenase)1412 putative response regulator 3 1413 hypothetical protein 1414glutamine-dependent asparagine synthetase 1415 lysine-ketoglutaratereductase/saccharopine 1416 En/Spm-like transposon protein 1417 G-boxbinding bZIP transcription factor 1418 putative protein 1419 putativeprotein 1420 putative protein 1421 ATFP4-like 1422 unknown protein 1423unknown protein 1424 putative protein 1425 invertase inhibitor homolog(emb|CAA73335.1) 1426 unknown protein 1427 unknown protein 1428 putativecytochrome b5 1429 putative protein 1430 putative protein 1431 putativeprotein 1432 No function assigned by TIGR 1433 putative copper/zincsuperoxide dismutase 1434 protein phosphatase ABI1 1435 glutamatedehydrogenase 2 1436 No function assigned by TIGR 1437low-temperature-induced protein 78 (sp|Q06738) 1438 putativemyo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase 1439 phosphate transporter(gb|AAB17265.1) 1440 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPD) 1441histone HI 1442 hypothetical protein 1443 No function assigned by TIGR1444 neoxanthin cleavage enzyme-like protein 1445 dehydration-inducedprotein RD22 1446 zinc finger protein ZAT7 1447 unknown protein 1448unknown protein 1449 unknown protein 1450 unknown protein 1451 putativeprotein 1452 putative protein 1453 RNA helicase, putative 1454 putativeglycine-rich protein 1455 hypothetical protein 1456 putative protein1457 peroxidase 1458 peroxidase ATP3a (emb|CAA67340.1) 1459metallothionein-like protein 1460 endomembrane-associated Protein 1461ferritin 1 precursor 1462 dehydrin RAB18-like protein (sp|P30185) 1463HSR201 like protein 1464 light regulated protein, putative 1465Dr4(protease inhibitor) 1466 mitogen activated protein kinase kinase(nMAPKK) 1467 glutathione S-transferase 1468 transcriptional activatorCBF1/CRT/CRE binding factor 1 1469 homeobox-leucine zipper proteinATHB-12 1470 amino acid permease I 1471 MAP kinase (ATMPK7) 1472potassium channel protein AKT3 1473 cytochrome P450 monooxygenase(CYP91A2) 1474 putative transport protein 1475 putative protein 1476hypothetical protein 1477 putative protein 1478 hypothetical protein1479 receptor protein kinase-like protein 1480 serine/threonine proteinkinase-like protein 1481 putative auxin-regulated protein 1482 aminoacid transport protein AAP2 1483 unknown protein 1484 cold and ABAinducible protein kinl 1485 gamma-VPE (vacuolar processing enzyme) 1486putative protein 1 photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex 1487myrosinase-associated protein, putative 1488 transcription factor ATMYB41489 H-protein promoter binding factor- 2a 1490 ammonium transporter,puitative 1491 putative zeta-carotene desaturase precursor 1492high-affinity nitrate transporter NRT2 1493 light induced protein like1494 putative AT-hook DNA-binding protein 1495 putative glycogenin 1496putative light repressible receptor protein kinase 1497 serine/threoninekinase-like protein 1498 putative peroxidase 1499 cytochrome P450monooxygenase (CYP83A1) 1500 MYB-related transcription factor (CCA1)1501 Terminal flowerl (TFL1) 1502 sulfate transporter ATST1 1503 RING-H2finger protein RHA3b 1504 lipoxygenase, putative 1505 seine0-acetyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.30) Sat-52 (pir||S71207) 1506ferulate-5-hydroxylase (FAH1) 1507 En/Spm-like transposon protein,putative 1508 calmodulin-binding-like protein 1509 hypothetical protein1510 somatic embryogenesis receptor- like kinase-like protein 1511putative giberellin beta- hydroxylase 1512 putative pectinesterase 1513putative protein 1514 unknown protein 1515 ribosomal protein 1516low-temperature-induced 65 kD protein (sp|Q04980) 1517 putativeglucosyltransferase 1518 peroxidase (emb|CAA67551.1) 1519 ankyrin-likeprotein 1520 ribosomal protein S11-like 1521 hypothetical protein 1522glycoprotein(EP1), putative 1523 calnexin-like protein 1524 SRG1-likeprotein 1525 ethylene response factor 1 (ERF1) 1526 transcriptionalactivator CBF1-like protein 1527 xyloglucan endo-1,4-beta D-glucanase(XTR-6) 1528 putative cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase 1529 gibberellin 3beta- hydroxylase, putative 1530 auxin response transcription factor 3(ETTIN/ARF3) 1531 No function assigned by TIGR 1532 putative protein1533 similar to avrRpt2-induced protein 1 1534 unknown protein 1535hypothetical protein 1536 putative protein kinase 1537 respiratory burstoxidase- like protein 1538 glucose-6- phosphate/phosphate- translocatorprecursor, putative 1539 class 1 non-symbiotic hemoglobin (AHB1) 1540endochitinase isolog 1541 putative cytochrome P450 1542 60S acidicribosomal protein P0 1543 putative protein 1544 auxin-induced protein,putative 1545 unknown protein 1546 hypothetical protein 1547 proteinphosphatase 2C ABI2 (PP2C) (sp|O04719) 1548 peroxidase, prxr2 1549putative peroxidase ATP12a 1550 putative beta-amylase 1551 putativeacetone-cyanohydrin lyase 1552 fatty acid elongase 3-ketoacyl-CoAsynthase 1 1553 putative citrate synthase 1554 pEARLI 1-like protein1555 putative MYB family transcription factor 1556 putativetranscription factor MYB28 1557 RNA helicase-like protein 1558 snoRNA1559 putative protein kinase 1560 growth regulator like protein 1561putative potassium transporter 1562 putative protein 1563 60S ribosomalprotein L14 1564 unknown protein 1565 putative RING-H2 zinc fingerprotein 1566 putative pollen surface protein 1567 unknown protein 1568unknown protein 1569 unknown protein 1570 putative Ca2+-ATPase 15711-aminocyclopropane-1- carboxylate synthase-like protein 1572 putativebeta-glucosidase 1573 transcription factor ZAP1 1574 oligopeptidetransporter, putative 1575 putative protein 1576 putativeglucosyltransferase 1577 putative serine/threonine kinase 1578 squaleneepoxidase-like protein 1579 similar to 14 KD proline-rich protein DC2.15precursor (sp|P14009); similar to ESTs emb|Z17709 and emb|Z47685 1580unknown protein 1581 unknown protein 1582 hypothetical protein 1583 60Sribosomal protein L38 1584 flavin-containing monooxygenase, putative1585 remorin 1586 unknown protein 1587 putative protein 1588lipoxygenase 1589 cold-regulated protein COR6.6 (KIN2) 1590 Mybtranscription factor homolog (ATR1) 1591 putative protein 1592 unknownprotein 1593 unknown protein 1594 Ca2+-transporting ATPase- like protein1595 protein phosphatase 2C (AtP2C-HA) 1596 peroxidase ATP24a 1597branched-chain alpha keto- acid dehydrogenase, putative 1598 putativebeta-ketoacyl-CoA synthase 1599 putative protein 1600 putativebeta-galactosidase 1601 putative protein 1602 60S ribosomal protein L271603 putative annexin 1604 NAC domain protein, putative 1605 unknownprotein 1606 late embryogenesis abundant protein LEA like 1607 unknownprotein 1608 putative protein 1609 dehydrin Xero2 1610 putative zincfinger protein 1611 unknown protein 1612 DnaJ-like protein 1613 putativeinositol polyphosphate-5- phosphatase- 1614 putative cytochrome P4501615 putative protein 1616 unknown protein 1617 putative protein 1618hypothetical protein 1619 putative protein 1620 sucrose-UDPglucosyltransferase 1621 glucose-6-phosphate 1- dehydrogenase 1622unknown protein 1623 mitochondria chaperonin (HSP60) 1624 sucrosetransport protein SUC1 1625 putative protein disulfide isomerase 1626putative pollen-specific protein 1627 integral membrane protein,putative 1628 rubredoxin, putative 1629 putative protein 1630 diseaseresistance protein RPS4, putative 1631 putative peptide/amino acidTransporter 1632 peroxidase, putative 1633 ethylene receptor, putative(ETR2) 1634 protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) 1635 putative glutathione5-transferase 1636 homeodomain transcription factor (ATHB-7) 1637putative nitrate transporter 1638 putative ribosomal protein L9,cytosolic 1639 putative DNA-binding protein 1640 beta-1,3-glucanase-likeprotein 1641 putative zinc transporter 1642 transcription factor TINY1643 putative aspartate kinase- homoserine dehydrogenase 1644 ethylenereponse factor-like AP2 domain transcription factor 1645 peptidetransporter-like protein 1646 trehalose-6-phosphate synthase likeprotein 1647 putative ribonuclease 1648 hypothetical protein 1649putative DNA-binding protein 1650 nodulin-like protein 1651trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase-like protein 1652 succinatedehydrogenase flavoprotein alpha subunit (emb|CAA05025.1) 1653 unknownprotein 1654 stress related protein, putative 1655 putative chloroplastinitiation factor 3 1656 putative protein 1657 hypothetical protein 1658putative CCCH-type zinc finger protein 1659 similar to harpin-inducedprotein hin 1 from tobacco 1660 unknown protein 1661 unknown protein1662 hypothetical protein 1663 No function assigned by TIGR 1664putative protein 1665 putative glutathione S transferase TSI-1 1666putative protein 1667 putative PTR2 family peptide transporter 1668receptor kinase-like protein 1669 putative sugar transport protein, ERD61670 putative protein 1671 nodulin-like protein 1672 unknown protein1673 putative receptor-like protein kinase 1674 glutathione-conjugatetransporter AtMRP4 1675 ascorbate oxidase-like protein 1676pathogenesis-related protein 1 precursor, 19.3K 1677 R2R3-MYBtranscription factor 1678 hypothetical protein 1679 putative chitinase1680 Mlo protein, putative 1681 putative WRKY-type DNA binding protein1682 putative acyl-CoA synthetase 1683 putative pathogenesis-relatedprotein 1684 putative chitinase 1685 germin precursor oxalate oxidase1686 endoxyloglucan transferase, putative 1687 putative protein 1688putative cytochrome P450 1689 similar to Mlo proteins from H. vulgare1690 putative tropinone reductase 1691 extensin-like protein 1692putative sarcosine oxidase 1693 putative protein 1694 hypotheticalprotein 1695 late embryogenesis-abundant protein, putative 1696beta-carotene hydroxylase 1697 putative calcium binding protein 1698unknown protein 1699 unknown protein 1700 predicted glycosyl transferase1701 hypothetical protein 1702 hypothetical protein 1703 hypotheticalprotein 1704 putative protein 1705 unknown protein 1706 putative protein1707 putative protein 1708 serine/threonine kinase-like protein 1709 Nofunction assigned by TIGR 1710 putative pectinesterase 1711 peroxidaselike protein 1712 No function assigned by TIGR 1713 phenylalanineammonia lyase (PAL1) 1714 peroxidase (emb|CAA68212.1) 1715 putative AMPdeaminase 1716 putative MYB family transcription factor 1717DNA-directed RNA polymerase II, third largest subunit 1718 nucleotidepyrophosphatase- like protein 1719 putative peroxidase 1720 calciumsensor homolog (gb|AAC26110.1) 1721 putative GDSL-motif lipase/hydrolase1722 putative nonspecific lipid- transfer protein 1723 acyl-carrierprotein (ACP), putative 1724 putative glycine dehydrogenase 1725 AIG11726 ACC synthase (AtACS-6) 1727 cyclin delta-3 1728 putative RING zincfinger protein 1729 aldose 1-epimerase-like protein 1730 putativephospholipase 1731 phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase 1732 putativegalactinol synthase 1733 unknown protein 1734 putative protein 17351-aminocyclopropane-1- carboxylate oxidase 1736 thioredoxin (clone GIF1)(pir||S58118) 1737 trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase 1738beta-1,3-glucanase 2 (BG2) (PR-2) 1739 putative S-adenosyl-L-methionine:trans-caffeoyl- Coenzyme A 3-O- methyltransferase 1740disease resistance protein EDS1 1741 putative protein kinase 1742Gluthatione reductase, chloroplast precursor 1743 putative heat shockprotein 1744 aspartate kinase 1745 putative major intrinsic (channel)protein 1746 matrix metalloproteinase, putative 1747 putative GDSL-motiflipase/hydrolase 1748 putative protein 1749 DAG-like protein 1750serine/threonine kinase-like protein 1751 formamidase-like protein 1752CER2 1753 26S proteasome subunit 4 1754 pectinesterase like protein 1755putative disease resistance protein 1756 putative RNA methyltransferase1757 unknown protein 1758 HOMEOBOX PROTEIN KNOTTED-1 LIKE 4 (KNAT4) 1759glycine-rich RNA-binding protein AtGRP2-like 1760 putativeacetylornithine transaminase 1761 putative Sec24-like COPII protein 1762putative berberine bridge enzyme 1763 putative GH3-like protein 1764putative ABC transporter 1765 putative reticuline oxidase-like protein1766 pectate lyase-like protein 1767 protein disulfide-isomerase-likeprotein 1768 putative protein 1769 putative membrane transporter 1770unknown protein 1771 unknown protein 1772 putative RING-H2 zinc fingerprotein 1773 unknown protein 1774 unknown protein 1775 unknown protein1776 MADS-box protein (AGL20) 1777 amidophosphoribosyltransferase 2precursor 1778 putative dihydrodipicolinate synthase 1779 hypotheticalprotein 1780 ABA-responsive protein- like 1781 putative protein 1782hypothetical protein 1783 DNA-binding protein-like 1784 No functionassigned by TIGR 1785 transcription factor, putative 1786 nitratereductase, putative 1787 putative protein 1788 putative protein 1789putative protein 1790 putative protein 1791 unknown protein 1792 unknownprotein 1793 tryptophan synthase beta- subunit (TSB2) 1794 hypotheticalprotein 1795 putative protein 1796 putative DNA-binding protein 1797putative 40S ribosomal protein S10 1798 putative protein 1799 putativecytochrome P450 1800 putative protein 1801 putative protein 1802putative glucosyltransferase 1803 No function assigned by TIGR 1804putative protein 1805 putative protein 1806 unknown protein 1807glycine-rich RNA binding protein 7 1808 dehydrin, putative 1809 putativeendoxyloglucan glycosyltransferase 1810 glutamate decarboxylase 1(GAD 1) (sp|Q42521) 1811 delta 9 desaturase 1812 UDP-glucoseglucosyltransferase 1813 CARBONIC ANHYDRASE 2 1814 response reactor 2(ATRR2) 1815 S-adenosyl-methionine-sterol-C- methyltransferase, putative1816 putative DNA-binding protein (RAV2-like) 1817 gamma glutamylhydrolase, putative 1818 protein phosphatase-like 1819 unknown protein1820 unknown protein 1821 unknown protein 1822 copper transportprotein-like protein 1823 hypothetical protein 1824 unknown protein 1825putative peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase 1826 putativeobtusifoliol 14-alpha demethylase 1827 glutamate dehydrogenase (EC1.4.1.—) 1 (pir||S71217) 1828 unknown protein 1829 xyloglucanendo-1,4-beta-D- glucanase precursor 1830 unknown protein 1831 SNF1related protein kinase (ATSRPK1) 1832 putative protein 1833 putativechloroplast nucleoid DNA binding protein 1834 hypothetical protein 1835putative protein 1836 putative thiamin biosynthesis protein 1837 unknownprotein 1838 unknown protein 1839 putative RNA helicase 1840 putativeSF21 protein {Helianthus annuus} 1841 unknown protein 1842 NBS/LRRdisease resistance protein, putative 1843 hypothetical protein 1844unknown protein 1845 No function assigned by TIGR 1846 glycine-richprotein (AtGRP2) 1847 No function assigned by TIGR 1848 putative protein1849 putative glucosyltransferase 1850 hypothetical protein 1851hypothetical protein 1852 putative protein 1853 putative diseaseresistance protein 1854 thaumatin, putative 1855 putative proline-richprotein 1856 sterol-C-methyltransferase 1857 superoxidase dismutase 1858TINY-like protein 1859 calcium-dependent protein kinase, putative 1860hypothetical protein 1861 putative protein kinase 1862 DNA-directed RNApolymerase (mitochondrial) 1863 putaive DNA-binding protein 1864 lateembryogenesis abundant M17 protein 1865 putative protein 1866delta-1-pyrroline-5- carboxylate synthetase 1867 putative 60s ribosomalprotein L10 1868 cytochrome P450 CYP86A1 1869 putative tyrosineaminotransferase 1870 thionin 1871 No function assigned by TIGR 1872APETALA2 protein 1873 MADS-box protein (AGL3) 1874 putativemonooxygenase 1875 ZFP3 zinc finger protein 1876 cell division proteinFtsZ chloroplast homolog precursor (sp|Q42545) 1877 calreticulin,putative 1878 phosphoserine aminotransferase 187912-oxophytodienoate-10,11- reductase 1880 putative bHLH transcriptionfactor 1881 pectin methylesterase (PMEU1), putative 1882 DNA-bindingprotein 1883 carnitine racemase like protein 1884 putative protein 1885endoxyloglucan transferase (dbj|BAA81669.1) 1886 RMA1 RING zinc fingerprotein 1887 ammonium transporter 1888 apyrase (gb|AAF00612.1) 1889potassium uptake transporter-like protein 1890 putative ABC transporter1891 potassium transporter-like protein 1892 integral membrane protein,putative 1893 putative protein 1894 pyruvate decarboxylase-1 (Pdc 1)1895 putative malate oxidoreductase 1896 putative histone H2B 1897snoRNA 1898 symbiosis-related like protein 1899 unknown protein 1900unknown protein 1901 hypothetical protein 1902 putative protein 1903copper-binding protein-like 1904 putative protein 1905 unknown protein1906 putative glyoxalase II 1907 No function assigned by TIGR 1908hypothetical protein 1909 flavanone 3-hydroxylase (FH3) 1910 putativelaccase 1911 putative protein kinase 1912 myb-related protein, 33.3K(pir||S71284) 1913 unknown protein 1914 endo-xyloglucan transferase-like protein 1915 TMV resistance protein N- like 1916 putativexyloglucan endotransglycosylase 1917 unknown protein 1918 prolinetransporter 2 1919 resistance protein, putative 1920 actin, putative1921 putative related to microbial divalent cation tolerance proteins1922 unknown protein 1923 putative glycosyl transferase 1924 unknownprotein 1925 putative protein phosphatase 2C 1926 unknown protein 1927serpin, putative 1928 cinnamyl-alcohol dehydrogenase CAD1 1929 putativeprotein import receptor 1930 unknown protein 1931 unknown protein 1932putative protein 1933 putative CDP- diacylglycerol-glycerol-3- phosphate3- phosphatidyltransferase 1934 unknown protein 1935 putative LRRreceptor-like protein kinase 1936 serine/threonine protein kinase,putative 1937 potassium transporter-like protein 1938 lactatedehydrogenase (LDH1) 1939 hypothetical protein 1940 unknown protein 1941putative thaumatin 1942 putative reticuline oxidase-like protein 1943uracil phosphoribosyltransferase, putative 1944 transcription factor,putative 1945 unknown protein 1946 unknown protein 1947 GATAtranscription factor 4 1948 unknown protein 1949 unknown protein 1950senescence-associated protein-like 1951 putative pollen allergen 1952unknown protein 1953 putative protein 1954 glycine-rich protein 1955putative protein 1956 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase, putative 1957endoplasmic reticulum-type calcium- transporting ATPase 4 1958 putativepectinesterase 1959 cytochrome P450-like protein 1960 RNA-bindingprotein (cp33) 1961 CONSTANS-like 1 1962 putative small heat shockprotein 1963 hypothetical protein 1964 unknown protein 1965 cytochromeP450-like protein 1966 cysteine proteinase inhibitor like protein 1967nicotianamine synthase (dbj|BAA74589.1) 1968 copper amine oxidase likeprotein (fragment2) 1969 putative SCARECROW gene regulator 1970 unknownprotein 1971 unknown protein 1972 putative alanine acetyl transferase1973 unknown protein 1974 unknown protein 1975 unknown protein 1976putative extensin 1977 putative protein kinase 1978 putative proteinkinase 1979 NADPH-dependent codeinone reductase, putative 1980peroxidase 1981 putative cytochrome P450 1982 No function assigned byTIGR 1983 putative zinc-finger protein (B-box zinc finger domain) 1984putative tyrosine aminotransferase 1985 hypothetical protein 1986 DNAbinding protein 1987 putative fatty acid elongase 1988 bZIPtranscription factor- like protein 1989 xyloglucan fucosyltransferase,putative 1990 unknown protein 1991 unknown protein 1992 putative protein1993 myb factor, putative 1994 Myb-family transcription factor, putative1995 putative fructose bisphosphate aldolase 1996 myrosinase-associatedprotein, putative 1997 cytochrome P450 like protein 1998 similar to SOR1from the fungus Cercospora nicotianae 1999 similar to embryo- abundantprotein GB: L47672 GI: 1350530 from [Picea glauca] 2000 alcoholdehydrogenase 2001 auxin response factor 1 2002 pathogenesis-relatedprotein 1 precursor, 18.9K 2003 hypothetical protein. 2004 unknownprotein 2005 zinc finger protein Zat12 2006 unknown protein 2007 unknownprotein 2008 cyclin, putative 2009 2-dehydro-3- deoxyphosphoheptonatealdolase 2010 glutathione synthetase gsh2 2011 heat shock protein 172012 putative Na+-dependent inorganic phosphate cotransporter 2013 Nofunction assigned by TIGR 2014 unknown protein 2015 putative protein2016 similar to RING-H2 finger protein RHC1a GB: AAC69854 GI: 3790583from [Arabidopsis thaliana] 2017 calcium-binding protein-like 2018putative protein 2019 putative aldehyde dehydrogenase 2020auxin-responsive GH3-like protein 2021 putative protein 2022Phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase- like protein 2023 unknown protein 2024unknown protein 2025 PSI type III chlorophyll a/b- binding protein,putative 2026 putative protein 2027 putative protein 2028 glutaredoxin,putative 2029 hypothetical protein 2030 No function assigned by TIGR2031 putative protein 2032 jasmonate inducible protein, putative 2033putative polygalacuronase isoenzyme 1 beta subunit 2034 putative smallheat shock protein 2035 unknown protein 2036 putative disease resistanceprotein 2037 putative protein 2038 ethylene-responsive element bindingfactor, putative 2039 putative protein 2040 Pollen-specific proteinprecursor like 2041 putative protein 2042 unknown protein 2043 EF-Handcontaining protein- like 2044 unknown protein 2045 puative calciumtransporting ATPase 2046 antifungal protein-like (PDF1.2) 2047pathogenesis-related PR-1- like protein 2048 similar to Mlo proteinsfrom H. vulgare 2049 putative steroid sulfotransferase 2050trehalase-like protein 2051 thioredoxin fl 2052 unknown protein 2053alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase 2054 integral membrane protein,putative 2055 hypothetical protein 2056 unknown protein 2057hypothetical protein 2058 unknown protein 2059 unknown protein 2060unknown protein 2061 drought-induced-19-like 1 2062 unknown protein 2063putative protein 2064 putative protein 2065 AIG2-like protein 2066 Lhca2protein 2067 phytocyanin 2068 putative chlorophyll A-B binding protein2069 Lhcb3 chlorophyll a/b binding protein (gb|AAD28773.1) 2070 luminalbinding protein (dbj|BAA13948.1) 2071 hydroxypyruvate reductase (HPR)2072 epoxide hydrolase (ATsEH) 2073 putative protein (fragment) 2074unknown protein 2075 hypothetical protein 2076 putative glucosyltransferase 2077 putative glucosyl transferase 2078 putative3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase 2079 putative peroxidase 2080 acyl-CoAoxidase (gb|AAC13497.1) 2081 alternative oxidase 1a precursor 2082putative transcription factor (MYB4) 2083 serine acetyltransferase 2084ATP-sulfurylase 2085 calreticulin (crtl) 2086 putative prohibitin 2 2087putative monodehydroascorbate reductase 2088 branched-chain alpha-ketoacid decarboxylase El beta subunit 2089 cytokinin oxidase-like protein2090 putative receptor-like protein kinase 2091 unknown protein 2092hypothetical protein 2093 No function assigned by TIGR 2094 putative APGprotein 2095 glutathione S-transferase, putative 2096phytochrome-associated protein 1 (PAP1) 2097amidophosphoribosyltransferase 2098 nonphototropic hypocotyl 1 20993-keto-acyl-CoA thiolase 2 (gb|AAC17877.1) 2100 pEARLI 1 2101glutathione reductase, cytosolic 2102 putative protein 2103 putativeprotein 2104 putative aldehyde oxidase 2105 probable photosystem I chainXI precursor 2106 photosystem II polypeptide, putative 2107 photosystemII reaction center 6.1 KD protein 2108 33 kDa polypeptide ofoxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in photosystem II (emb|CAA75629.1) 210960S ribosomal protein L11B 2110 extA (emb|CAA47807.1) 2111 zinc fingerprotein OBP4- like 2112 sterol delta7 reductase 2113 putativeRAS-related protein, RAB11C 2114 glucosyltransferase like protein 2115zinc finger protein (PMZ), putative 2116 6,7-dimethyl-8- ribityllumazinesynthase precursor 2117 putative protein 2118 osmotin precursor 2119 Nofunction assigned by TIGR 2120 ferredoxin precusor isolog 2121 GH3 likeprotein 2122 non-specific lipid transfer protein 2123 homeodomaintranscription factor (HAT9) 2124 putative cytochrome P450 monooxygenase2125 putative protein kinase 2126 putative protein 2127glyceraldehyde-3- phosphate dehydrogenase 2128 putative proteindisulfide- isomerase 2129 unknown protein 2130 beta-1,3-glucanase classI precursor 2131 homeobox-leucine zipper protein HAT5 (HD-ZIP protein 5)(HD- ZIP protein ATHB-1) 2132 putative cyclic nucleotide- regulated ionchannel protein 2133 P II nitrogen sensing protein GLBI 2134 H-proteinpromoter binding factor 1 (gb|AAC24592.1) 2135 GASTI-like protein 2136cytochrome P450 GA3 2137 putative protein 2138 Myb-related transcriptionfactor- like protein 2139 putative phloem-specific lectin 2140 proteinkinase-like protein 2141 unknown protein 2142 SCARECROW transcriptionalregulator-like 2143 unknown protein 2144 unknown protein 2145 putativeprotein 2146 calnexin homolog 2147 PP1/PP2A phosphatases pleiotropicregulator PRL2 2148 xyloglucan endotransglycosylase, putative 2149putative calmodulin 2150 spermine synthase (ACL5) 2151 snoRNA 2152photosystem I subunit V precursor, putative 2153 putative potassiumtransporter 2154 Homeodomain-like protein 2155 putative protein 2156unknown protein 2157 CALMODULIN-RELATED PROTEIN 2, TOUCH-INDUCED (TCH2)2158 putative protein phosphatase 2C 2159 monosaccharide transportprotein, STP4 2160 hypothetical protein 2161 unknown protein 2162hypothetical protein 2163 putative protein kinase 2164 putativeserine/threonine protein kinase 2165 jasmonate inducible protein,putative 2166 similar to several small proteins (~100aa) that areinduced by heat, auxin, ethylene and wounding such as Phaseolus aureusindole-3-acetic acid induced protein ARG (SW: 32292) 2167 unknownprotein 2168 MYB-like protein 2169 putative protein kinase 2170 unknownprotein 2171 CLC-d chloride channel protein 2172 cytochrome P450-likeprotein 2173 putative glutathione S- transferase 2174 putativemandelonitrile lyase 2175 hypothetical protein 2176 putative trypsininhibitor 2177 male sterility 2-like protein (emb|CAA68191.1) 2178unknown protein 2179 unknown protein 2180 putative protein 2181 putativeperoxidase 2182 putative thromboxane-A synthase 2183 putative cytochromeP450 2184 peroxidase ATP21a 2185 unknown protein 2186 putativeglutathione S- transferase 2187 defender against cell death protein 2188AP2 domain containing protein, putative 2189 actin depolymerizingfactor-like protein 2190 putative calcium-dependent protein kinase(U90439) 2191 phosphoribosylanthranilate transferase, putative 2192oligopeptide transporter, putative 2193 calmodulin-like protein 2194putative protease inhibitor 2195 MAP kinase 2196 DNA binding proteinMybStl, putative 2197 putative protein 2198 putative protein 2199unknown protein 2200 unknown protein 2201 unknown protein 2202 putativeprotein 2203 unknown protein 2204 unknown protein 2205 hypotheticalprotein 2206 uncharacterized protein 2207 putative protein 2208hypothetical protein 2209 peroxidase (emb|CAA66967.1) 2210 putativeflavonol 3-O- glucosyltransferase 2211 putative flavonol 3-O-glucosyltransferase 2212 putative protein 2213 glycerol-3-phosphateacyltransferase 2214 putative beta-1,3-glucanase 2215 putative ethyleneresponse element binding protein (EREBP) 2216 putative CONSTANS-likeB-box zinc finger protein 2217 putative protein 2218 unknown protein2219 putative trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (AtTPPA) 2220 putativeprotein 2221 putative protein 2222 unknown protein 2223 unknown protein2224 unknown protein 2225 hypothetical protein 2226 putativemetal-binding protein 2227 putative phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase2228 unknown protein 2229 putative protein 2230 unknown protein 2231unknown protein 2232 putative beta-galactosidase 2233 putative proteinkinase 2234 putative protein 2235 putative protein phosphatase 2C 2236putative growth regulator protein 2237 putative ABC transporter 2238chloride channel (emb|CAA70310.1) 2239 adrenodoxin-like protein 2240 NAM(no apical meristem)- like protein 2241 putative transcription factorMYB41 2242 Myb DNA binding protein- like 2243 AtMYB84 2244 photosystemII type I chlorophyll a/b binding protein 2245 putative asparticproteinase 2246 jasmonate inducible protein, putative 2247 putativeprotein 2248 No function assigned by TIGR 2249 putativephosphatidylserine synthase 2250 putative nicotianamine synthase 2251lysine and histidine specific transporter, putative 2252 putativeprotein 2253 putative protein 2254 putative sugar transporter protein2255 12S cruciferin seed storage protein 2256 putative auxin-inducedprotein, IAA17/AXR3-1 2257 putative cyclin D 2258 farnesyl diphosphatesynthase precursor (gb|AAB49290.1) 2259 putative potassium transportprotein (TRH1) 2260 putative NPK1-related MAP kinase 2261 putativeprotein 2262 putative ABC transporter 2263 putative DNA-directed RNApolymerase subunit 2264 putative small nuclear ribonucleoprotein E 2265unknown protein 2266 reticuline oxidase-like protein 2267 putative1-aminocyclopropane-1- carboxylate oxidase 2268 similar to Mlo proteinsfrom H. vulgare 2269 long-chain-fatty-acid-CoA ligase- like protein 2270putative protein 2271 chromatin remodelling complex ATPase chainISWI-like protein 2272 hypothetical protein 2273 latex-abundant protein,putative 2274 N-acetylornithine deacetylase-like protein, fragment 2275putative DNA-binding protein 2276 putative anthranilate N-hydroxycinnamoyl/lbenzoyltransferase 2277 putative DNA binding protein2278 cytochrome P450-like protein 2279 putative DNA-binding protein 2280putative peptide transporter 2281 putative reticuline oxidase-likeprotein 2282 thioredoxin, putative 2283 nodulin-like protein 2284UDP-galactose transporter- like protein 2285 putative fibrillin 2286unknown protein 2287 unknown protein 2288 unknown protein 2289hypothetical protein 2290 glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase Asubunit (GapA) 2291 predicted protein of unknown function 2292 putativeprotein 2293 putative protein 2294 myb-like protein 2295 hypotheticalprotein 2296 putative U5 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein, an RNAhelicase 2297 unknown protein 2298 cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase-likeprotein 2299 hypothetical protein similar to extensin-like protein 2300unknown protein 2301 putative chlorophyll a/b binding protein 2302probable plasma membrane intrinsic protein 1c 2303 hexokinase (ATHXK2)2304 calcium-dependent protein kinase 2305 5′-adenylylphosphosulfatereductase, putative 2306 Erd1 protein precursor (sp|P42762) 2307putative protein 2308 putative protein 2309 unknown protein 2310 BCS1protein-like protein 2311 putative protein 2312 putative protein 2313putative protein kinase 2314 indoleacetic acid (IAA)-inducible gene(IAA7) 2315 ATP-dependent Clp protease regulatory subunit CLPX 2316DNA-binding protein RAV1 2317 putative protein 2318 hypothetical protein2319 unknown protein 2320 unknown protein 2321 putative protein 2322putative thioredoxin reductase 2323 unknown protein 2324 putative lectin2325 No function assigned by TIGR 2326 beta-fructosidase 2327chlorophyll a/b-binding protein CP29 2328 photosystem I subunitPSI-E-like protein 2329 peroxidase ATP8a 2330 putative fructosebisphosphate aldolase 2331 zinc finger protein ATZF1, putative 2332 DegPprotease precursor 2333 transcription factor-like protein 2334calcium-dependent protein kinase 2335 hypothetical protein 2336 putativeprotein 2337 glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase (APL3) 2338 Nofunction assigned by TIGR 2339 putative Eukaryotic initiation factor 4A2340 No function assigned by TIGR 2341 unknown protein 2342 beta tubulin1, putative 2343 one helix protein (OHP) 2344 No function assigned byTIGR 2345 zinc finger protein 5, ZFP5 2346 putative MYB familytranscription factor 2347 putative amino acid transporter protein 2348putative potassium transporter 2349 protein kinase (AFC2) 2350 putativeprotein 2351 No function assigned by TIGR 2352 putative ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2 2353 unknown protein 2354 cytochrome P450monooxygenase (CYP7IB3) 2355 putative myrosinase binding protein 2356putative vacuolar sorting receptor 2357 uridine diphosphate glucoseepimerase 2358 shaggy related protein kinase, ASK-GAMMA 2359 ankyrinrepeat protein EMB506 2360 putative beta-alanine pyruvateaminotransferase 2361 putative alcohol dehydrogenase 2362 putativereceptor-like protein kinase 2363 unknown protein 2364 putativemethylmalonate semi-aldehyde dehydrogenase 2365 hypothetical protein2366 unknown protein 2367 peroxidase ATP13a 2368 putative glutathioneperoxidase 2369 squamosa promoter binding protein-like 7 2370photosystem II core complex protein, putative 2371 snoRNA 2372photosystem I subunit X precursor 2373 MYB transcription factor (Atmyb2)2374 putative PHD-type zinc finger protein 2375 nuclear RNA bindingprotein A- like protein 2376 unknown protein 2377 unknown protein 2378unknown protein 2379 putative amino-cyclopropane- carboxylic acidoxidase (ACC oxidase) 2380 hypothetical protein 2381 indole-3-acetatebeta glucosyltransferase like protein 2382 predicted protein 2383unknown protein 2384 No function assigned by TIGR 2385 putativephotosystem I reaction center subunit IV 2386 putative homeodomaintranscription factor 2387 putative purple acid phosphatase precursor2388 No function assigned by TIGR 2389 nitrate reductase 1(NR1) 2390putative casein kinase II beta subunit 2391 pEARLI 1-like protein 2392putative protein 2393 No function assigned by TIGR 2394 unknown protein2395 putative cell wall-plasma membrane disconnecting CLCT protein(AIR1A) 2396 unknown protein 2397 scarecrow-like 11-like 2398 putativeanthocyanidin synthase 2399 putative AP2 domain transcription factor2400 caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase- like protein 2401 unknown protein2402 putative protein kinase 2403 cytochrome P450-like protein 2404putative MADS-box protein ANR1 2405 putative glutathione S-transferase2406 hypothetical protein 2407 similar to gibberellin- regulatedproteins 2408 unknown protein 2409 putative sensory transductionhistidine Kinase 2410 similar to late embryogenesis abundant proteins2411 unknown protein 2412 putative protein 2413 putative ATP-dependentRNA helicase 2414 putative protein 2415 putative sucrose synthetase 2416beta-fructofuranosidase 1 2417 putative indole-3-acetatebeta-glucosyltransferase 2418 hypothetical protein 2419 DNA-directed RNApolymerase II, third largest subunit 2420 putative transcription factor2421 homeobox-leucine zipper protein ATHB-5 (HD-zip protein ATHB-5)(sp|P46667) 2422 putative ftsH chloroplast protease 2423 replicationprotein A1-like 2424 hypothetical protein 2425 unknown protein 2426unknown protein 2427 putative methionine aminopeptidase 2428 unknownprotein 2429 fatty acid elongase-like protein (cer2-like) 2430 unknownprotein 2431 putative disease resistance response protein 2432 putativeprotein 2433 unknown protein 2434 putative protein 2435 putative protein2436 unknown protein 2437 putative protein 2438 unknown protein 2439unknown protein 2440 putative protein 2441 No function assigned by TIGR2442 MADS-box protein AGL14 2443 No function assigned by TIGR 2444peptidylprolyl isomerase 2445 putative s-adenosylmethionine synthetase2446 peroxidase 2447 ferrochelatase-I 2448 putative eukaryoticinitiation factor 4, eIF4 2449 drought-inducible cysteine proteinaseRD21A precursor-like protein 2450 unknown protein 2451 unknown protein2452 No function assigned by TIGR 2453 No function assigned by TIGR 2454salt-inducible like protein 2455 glucose-6-phosphate 1- Dehydrogenase2456 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase (AA 1-592) 2457hypothetical protein 2458 putative protein 2459 putative putative 60Sribosomal protein L17 2460 putative inorganic pyrophosphatase 2461putative gamma- glutamyltransferase 2462 heat shock transcriptionfactor- like protein 2463 mitochondrial chaperonin hsp60 2464 unknownprotein 2465 putative zinc finger protein identical to T10M13.22 2466putative uridylyl transferase 2467 nodulin-like protein 2468 putativeB-box zinc finger protein 2469 No function assigned by TIGR 2470putative metalloproteinase 2471 putative cellular apoptosissusceptibility protein 2472 hypothetical protein 2473 hypotheticalprotein 2474 scarecrow-like 13 (SCL13) 2475 putative nucleosidetriphosphatase 2476 unknown protein 2477 No function assigned by TIGR2478 hypothetical protein 2479 putative phospholipase 2480 putativesnRNP protein 2481 putative protein 2482 putative lipase 2483 putativenonsense-mediated mRNA decay protein 2484 No function assigned by TIGR2485 protochlorophyllide reductase precursor 2486 No function assignedby TIGR 2487 trehalose-6-phosphate synthase, putative 2488 unknownprotein 2489 germin-like protein 2490 plastid protein 2491 putativeprotein 2492 hypothetical protein 2493 unknown protein 2494 unknownprotein 2495 histone deacetylase-like protein 2496 unknown protein 2497unknown protein 2498 putative protein 2499 putative protein 2500 Nofunction assigned by TIGR 2501 putative zinc transporter ZIP2-like 2502unknown protein 2503 putative ribosomal-protein S6 kinase (ATPK19) 2504unknown protein 2505 unknown protein 2506 60S ribosomal protein L10A2507 putative protein 2508 receptor protein kinase (IRK1), putative 2509putative nematode-resistance protein 2510 tubulin alpha-5 chain-likeprotein 2511 putative DNA-binding protein 2512 unknown protein 2513putative RGA1, giberellin repsonse modulation protein 2514 nonphototropic hypocotyl 1-like 2515 RING-H2 finger protein RHA1b 2516putative myb-protein 2517 hydroperoxide lyase (HPOL) like protein 2518serine/threonine-protein kinase, PK7 2519 putative vacuolarproton-ATPase subunit 2520 putative polygalacturonase 2521 putativeribosomal protein L8 2522 putative adenylate kinase 2523 germin-likeprotein (GLP10) 2524 putative chlorophyll a/b binding protein 2525chloroplast single subunit DNA- dependent RNA polymerase 2526 putativeprotein 2527 hypothetical protein 2528 hypothetical protein 2529 b-ketoacyl reductase, putative 2530 cellulose synthase catalytic subunit 2531putative 1-aminocyclopropane-1- carboxylate oxidase 2532 S-linaloolsynthase, putative 2533 phosphoribosyl-ATP pyrophosphohydrolase (At-IE)2534 disease resistance RPP5 like protein (fragment) 2535 putativeprotein 2536 beta-galactosidase like protein 2537 putative translationinitiation factor eIF-2, gamma subunit 2538 ankyrin like protein 2539histone H2A-like protein 2540 putative protein 2541 salt-tolerance zincfinger protein 2542 unknown protein 2543 putative protein 2544fructose-bisphosphate aldolase 2545 peroxidase (emb|CAA66964.1) 2546patatin-like protein 2547 salt-inducible protein homolog 2548hypothetical protein 2549 xyloglucan endo- transglycosylase-like protein2550 trihelix DNA-binding protein (GT2) 2551 ubiquitin-conjugatingenzyme 16, putative 2552 homeobox protein 2553 envelope Ca2+-ATPase 2554snap25a 2555 putative annexin 2556 putative protein 2557 homeodomaintranscription factor (ATHB-14) 2558 heat shock protein, putative 2559peroxidase ATP23a 2560 p68 RNA helicase, putative 2561 potassiumtransporter, putative 2562 putative eukaryotic translation initiationfactor 2 alpha subunit, eIF2 2563 hypothetical protein 2564 carnitineracemase like protein 2565 No function assigned by TIGR 2566 unknownprotein 2567 unknown protein 2568 unknown protein 2569 serine/threoninekinase-like protein 2570 peroxidase (emb|CAA66960.1) 2571 putativeprotein 2572 hypothetical protein 2573 glycine-rich protein 2 (GRP2)2574 unknown protein 2575 berberine bridge enzyme-like protein 2576unknown protein 2577 putative WD-repeat protein 2578 serine/threoninekinase-like protein 2579 serine/threonine kinase-like protein 2580Cu2+-transporting ATPase-like protein 2581 translation initiation factoreIF4E 2582 O-methyltransferase-like protein 2583 translation initiationfactor eIF3- like protein 2584 No function assigned by TIGR 2585 unknownprotein 2586 hypothetical protein 2587 unknown protein 2588 unknownprotein 2589 glycine-rich protein like 2590 putative disease resistanceprotein 2591 putative Na+/Ca2+ antiporter 2592 putativehydroxymethylglutaryl- CoA lyase 2593 putativephosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase 2594 SAR DNA-bindingprotein-like 2595 response regulator, putative 2596 fibrillinprecursor-like protein 2597 beta-ketoacyl-CoA synthase (FIDDLEHEAD) 2598lectin like protein 2599 No function assigned by TIGR 2600 acidicendochitinase (dbj|BAA21861.1) 2601 unknown protein 2602 hypotheticalprotein 2603 predicted OR23 protein of unknown function 2604 putativeprotein 2605 hypothetical protein 2606 glycerol-3-phosphatedehydrogenase 2607 hypothetical protein 2608 tat-binding protein,putative 2609 putative protein 2610 putative trehalose-6- phosphatephosphatase 2611 hypothetical protein 2612 putative flavonol 3-O-glucosyltransferase 2613 60S ribosomal protein L30 2614 putativeauxin-induced protein 2615 putative nonspecific lipid- transfer proteinprecursor 2616 AtRerlA 2617 putative aquaporin (tonoplast intrinsicprotein gamma) 2618 hypothetical protein 2619 putative alanine acetyltransferase 2620 putative NADP-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphatedehydrogenase 2621 putative DNA binding protein 2622 putativecystathionine gamma-synthase 2623 unknown protein 2624 malateoxidoreductase (malic enzyme) 2625 unknown protein 2626 cyclicnucleotide-gated cation channel 2627 glyoxalase II, putative 2628putative trypsin inhibitor 2629 unknown protein 2630 unknown protein2631 unknown protein 2632 nucleosome assembly protein I-like protein2633 membrane channel like protein 2634 anthocyanin2, putative 2635 TWINSISTER OF FT (TSF) 2636 putative myb-related transcription factor 2637hypothetical protein 2638 putative RING zinc finger protein 2639 aminoacid transport protein AAT1 2640 putative protein 2641 putative protein2642 xanthine dehydrogenase 2643 xanthine dehydrogenase-like protein2644 receptor protein kinase (IRK1), putative 2645 dehydrin-like protein2646 unknown protein 2647 aldehyde dehydrogenase homolog, putative 2648Ran binding protein (AtRanBPlb) 2649 putative squamosa-promoter bindingprotein 2650 putative protein 2651 kinesin like protein 2652 putativecellulose synthase 2653 calmodulin (cam2) 2654 fibrillarin-like protein2655 putative transmembrane protein G5p 2656 putative peroxidase 2657putative SNF1-related protein kinase 2658 glutathione S-transferase,putative 2659 unknown protein 2660 hypothetical protein 2661 putativeprotein 2662 phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase isolog 2663putative tyrosine decarboxylase 2664 unknown protein 2665 SGP1 monomericG-protein (emb|CAB54517.1) 2666 putative serine carboxypeptidase II 2667putative L5 ribosomal protein 2668 putative glucosyltransferase 2669flavonoid 3,5-hydroxylase like protein 2670 putative protein 2671putative protein 2672 putative Fe(II)/ascorbate oxidase 2673 putativeanthocyanin 5- aromatic acyltransferase 2674 casein kinase I 2675putative 2,3- bisphosphoglycerate- independent phosphoglycerate mutase2676 putative glutathione S- transferase TSI-1 2677 ATP-dependent RNAhelicase 2678 putative cytochrome P450 2679 putative WD-40 repeatprotein 2680 No function assigned by TIGR 2681 No function assigned byTIGR 2682 putative protein 2683 putative extension 2684 nodulin-26-likeprotein 2685 RINA helicase (emb/CAA09212.1) 2686 predicted protein ofunknown function 2687 putative berberine bridge enzyme 2688 thioredoxin,putative 2689 putative serine carboxypeptidase I 2690 cytochromeP450-like protein 2691 putative pyrophosphate-dependentphosphofructokinase alpha subunit 2692 putative flavonolglucosyltransferase 2693 peroxidase ATP20a (emb|CAA67338.1) 2694 TOPP8serine/threonine protein phosphatase type one 2695 auxin regulatedprotein IAA18, putative 2696 putative WRKY-type DNA binding protein 2697putative glucan synthase 2698 squalene monooxygenase 2699 putativeproline-rich protein 2700 G2484-1 protein 2701 heat shock protein 70like protein 2702 unknown protein 2703 unknown protein

TABLE 2 ABIOTIC STRESS RESPONSIVE GENE REGULATORY SEQUENCES SEQREGULATORY ID NO: REGION 1 2704 2 2705 3 2706 4 2707 5 2708 6 2709 72710 8 2711 9 2712 10 2713 11 2714 12 2715 13 2716 14 2717 15 2718 162719 17 2720 18 2721 19 2722 20 2723 21 2724 22 2725 23 2726 24 2727 252728 26 2729 27 2730 28 2731 29 2732 30 2733 31 2734 32 2735 33 2736 342737 35 2738 36 2739 37 2740 38 2741 39 2742 40 2743 41 2744 42 2745 43NONE 44 2746 45 2747 46 2748 47 2749 48 2750 49 2751 50 2752 51 2753 522754 53 2755 54 2756 55 2757 56 2758 57 2759 58 2760 59 2761 60 2762 612763 62 2764 63 2765 64 2766 65 2767 66 2768 67 2769 68 2770 69 NONE 702771 71 2772 72 2773 73 2774 74 2775 75 2776 76 2777 77 2778 78 2779 792780 80 2781 81 2782 82 2783 83 2784 84 2785 85 2786 86 2787 87 2788 882789 89 2790 90 2791 91 2792 92 2793 93 2794 94 2795 95 2796 96 2797 972798 98 2799 99 2800 100 2801 101 2802 102 2803 103 2804 104 2805 1052806 106 2807 107 2808 108 2809 109 2810 110 2811 111 2812 112 2813 1132814 114 2815 115 2816 116 2817 117 2818 118 2819 119 2820 120 2821 1212822 122 2823 123 2824 124 2825 125 2826 126 2827 127 2828 128 2829 1292830 130 2831 131 2832 132 2833 133 2834 134 2835 135 2836 136 2837 1372838 138 2839 139 2840 140 2841 141 2842 142 2843 143 2844 144 NONE 1452845 146 2846 147 2847 148 2848 149 2849 150 2850 151 2851 152 2852 1532853 154 2854 155 2855 156 2856 157 2857 158 2858 159 2859 160 2860 1612861 162 2862 163 2863 164 2864 165 2865 166 2866 167 2867 168 2868 1692869 170 2870 171 2871 172 2872 173 2873 174 2874 175 2875 176 2876 1772877 178 2878 179 2879 180 2880 181 2881 182 2882 183 2883 184 2884 1852885 186 2886 187 2887 188 2888 189 2889 190 2890 191 2891 192 2892 1932893 194 2894 195 2895 196 2896 197 2897 198 2898 199 2899 200 2900 2012901 202 2902 203 2903 204 2904 205 2905 206 2906 207 2907 208 2908 2092909 210 2910 211 2911 212 2912 213 2913 214 2914 215 2915 216 2916 2172917 218 2918 219 2919 220 2920 221 2921 222 2922 223 2923 224 2924 2252925 226 2926 227 2927 228 2928 229 2929 230 2930 231 2931 232 2932 2332933 234 2934 235 2935 236 2936 237 2937 238 2938 239 2939 240 2940 2412941 242 2942 243 2943 244 2944 245 2945 246 2946 247 2947 248 2948 2492949 250 2950 251 2951 252 2952 253 2953 254 2954 255 2955 256 2956 2572957 258 2958 259 2959 260 2960 261 2961 262 2962 263 2963 264 2964 2652965 266 2966 267 2967 268 2968 269 2969 270 2970 271 2971 272 2972 2732973 274 2974 275 2975 276 2976 277 2977 278 2978 279 2979 280 2980 2812981 282 2982 283 2983 284 2984 285 2985 286 2986 287 2987 288 2988 2892989 290 2990 291 2991 292 2992 293 2993 295 2995 296 2996 297 2997 2982998 299 2999 300 3000 301 3001 302 3002 303 3003 304 NONE 305 3004 3063005 307 3006 308 3007 309 3008 310 3009 311 3010 312 3011 313 3012 3143013 315 3014 316 3015 317 3016 318 3017 319 3018 320 3019 321 3020 3223021 323 3022 324 3023 325 3024 326 3025 327 3026 328 3027 329 3028 3303029 331 3030 332 3031 333 3032 334 3033 335 3034 336 3035 337 3036 3383037 339 3038 340 3039 341 3040 342 3041 343 3042 344 3043 345 3044 3463045 347 3046 348 3047 349 3048 350 3049 351 3050 352 3051 353 3052 3543053 355 3054 356 3055 357 3056 358 3057 359 3058 360 3059 361 3060 3623061 363 3062 364 3063 365 3064 366 3065 367 3066 368 3067 369 3068 3703069 371 3070 372 3071 373 3072 374 3073 375 3074 376 3075 377 3076 3783077 379 3078 380 3079 381 3080 382 3081 383 3082 384 3083 385 3084 3863085 387 3086 388 3087 389 3088 390 3089 391 3090 392 3091 393 3092 3943093 395 3094 396 3095 397 3096 398 3097 399 3098 400 3099 401 3100 4023101 403 3102 404 3103 405 3104 406 3105 407 3106 408 3107 409 3108 4103109 411 3110 412 3111 413 3112 414 3113 415 3114 416 3115 417 3116 4183117 419 3118 420 3119 421 3120 422 3121 423 3122 424 3123 425 3124 4263125 427 3126 428 3127 429 3128 430 3129 431 3130 432 3131 433 3132 4343133 435 3134 436 3135 437 3136 438 3137 439 3138 440 3139 441 3140 4423141 443 3142 444 3143 445 3144 446 3145 447 3146 448 3147 449 3148 4503149 451 3150 452 3151 453 3152 454 3153 455 3154 456 3155 457 3156 4583157 459 3158 460 3159 461 3160 462 3161 463 3162 464 3163 465 3164 4663165 467 3166 468 3167 469 3168 470 3169 471 3170 472 3171 473 3172 4743173 475 3174 476 3175 477 3176 478 3177 479 3178 480 3179 481 3180 4823181 483 3182 484 3183 485 3184 486 3185 487 3186 488 3187 489 3188 4903189 491 3190 492 3191 493 3192 494 3193 495 3194 496 3195 497 3196 4983197 499 3198 500 3199 501 3200 502 3201 503 3202 504 3203 505 3204 5063205 507 3206 508 3207 509 3208 510 3209 511 3210 512 3211 513 3212 5143213 515 3214 516 3215 517 3216 518 3217 519 3218 520 3219 521 3220 5223221 523 3222 524 3223 525 3224 526 3225 527 3226 528 3227 529 3228 5303229 531 3230 532 3231 533 3232 534 3233 535 3234 536 3235 537 3236 5383237 539 3238 540 3239 541 3240 542 3241 543 3242 544 3243 545 3244 5463245 547 3246 548 3247 549 3248 550 3249 551 3250 552 3251 553 3252 5543253 555 3254 556 3255 557 3256 558 3257 559 3258 560 3259 561 3260 5623261 563 3262 564 3263 565 3264 566 3265 567 3266 568 3267 569 3268 5703269 571 3270 572 3271 573 3272 574 3273 575 3274 576 3275 577 3276 5783277 579 3278 580 3279 581 3280 582 3281 583 3282 584 3283 585 3284 5863285 587 3286 588 3287 589 3288 590 3289 591 3290 592 3291 593 3292 5943293 595 3294 596 3295 597 3296 598 3297 599 3298 600 3299 601 3300 6023301 603 3302 604 3303 605 3304 606 3305 607 3306 608 3307 609 3308 6103309 611 3310 612 3311 613 3312 614 3313 615 3314 616 3315 617 3316 6183317 619 3318 620 3319 621 3320 622 3321 623 3322 624 3323 625 3324 6263325 627 3326 628 3327 629 3328 630 3329 631 3330 632 3331 633 3332 6343333 635 3334 636 3335 637 3336 638 3337 639 3338 640 3339 641 3340 6423341 643 3342 644 3343 645 3344 646 3345 647 3346 648 3347 649 3348 6503349 651 3350 652 3351 653 3352 654 3353 655 3354 656 3355 657 3356 6583357 659 3358 660 3359 661 3360 662 3361 663 3362 664 3363 665 3364 6663365 667 3366 668 3367 669 3368 670 3369 671 3370 672 3371 673 3372 6743373 675 3374 676 3375 677 3376 678 3377 679 3378 680 3379 681 3380 6823381 683 3382 684 3383 685 3384 686 3385 687 3386 688 3387 689 3388 6903389 691 3390 692 3391 693 3392 694 3393 695 3394 696 3395 697 3396 6983397 699 3398 700 3399 701 3400 702 3401 703 3402 704 3403 705 3404 7063405 707 3406 708 3407 709 3408 710 3409 711 3410 712 3411 713 3412 7143413 715 3414 716 3415 717 3416 718 3417 719 3418 720 3419 721 3420 7223421 723 3422 724 3423 725 3424 726 3425 727 3426 728 3427 729 3428 7303429 731 3430 732 3431 733 3432 734 3433 735 3434 736 3435 737 3436 7383437 739 3438 740 3439 741 3440 742 3441 743 3442 744 3443 745 3444 7463445 747 3446 748 3447 749 3448 750 3449 751 3450 752 3451 753 3452 7543453 755 3454 756 3455 757 3456 758 3457 759 3458 760 3459 761 3460 7623461 763 3462 764 3463 765 3464 766 3465 767 3466 768 3467 769 3468 7703469 771 3470 772 3471 773 3472 774 3473 775 3474 776 3475 777 3476 7783477 779 3478 780 3479 781 3480 782 3481 783 3482 784 3483 785 3484 7863485 787 3486 788 3487 789 3488 790 3489 791 3490 792 3491 793 3492 7943493 795 3494 796 3495 797 3496 798 3497 799 3498 800 3499 801 3500 8023501 803 3502 804 3503 805 3504 806 3505 807 3506 808 3507 809 3508 8103509 811 3510 812 3511 813 3512 814 3513 815 3514 816 3515 817 3516 8183517 819 3518 820 3519 821 3520 822 3521 823 3522 824 3523 825 3524 8263525 827 3526 828 3527 829 3528 830 3529 831 3530 832 3531 833 3532 8343533 835 3534 836 3535 837 3536 838 3537 839 3538 840 3539 841 3540 8423541 843 3542 844 3543 845 3544 846 3545 847 3546 848 3547 849 3548 8503549 851 3550 852 3551 853 3552 854 3553 855 3554 856 3555 857 3556 8583557 859 3558 860 3559 861 3560 862 3561 863 3562 864 3563 865 3564 8663565 867 3566 868 3567 869 3568 870 3569 871 3570 872 3571 873 3572 8743573 875 3574 876 3575 877 3576 878 3577 879 3578 880 3579 881 3580 8823581 883 3582 884 3583 885 3584 886 3585 887 NONE 888 3586 889 3587 8903588 891 3589 892 3590 893 3591 894 NONE 895 NONE 896 3592 897 3593 8983594 899 3595 900 3596 901 3597 902 3598 903 3599 904 3600 905 3601 9063602 907 3603 908 3604 909 3605 910 3606 911 3607 912 3608 913 3609 9143610 915 3611 916 3612 917 3613 918 3614 919 3615 920 3616 921 3617 9223618 923 3619 924 3620 925 3621 926 3622 927 3623 928 3624 929 3625 9303626 931 3627 932 3628 933 3629 934 3630 935 NONE 936 3631 937 3632 9383633 939 3634 940 3635 941 3636 942 3637 943 3638 944 3639 945 3640 9463641 947 3642 948 3643 949 3644 950 3645 951 3646 952 3647 953 3648 9543649 955 3650 956 3651 957 3652 958 3653 959 3654 960 3655 961 3656 9623657 963 3658 964 3659 965 3660 966 3661 967 3662 968 3663 969 3664 9703665 971 3666 972 3667 973 3668 974 3669 975 3670 976 3671 977 3672 9783673 979 3674 980 3675 981 3676 982 3677 983 3678 984 3679 985 3680 9863681 987 3682 988 3683 989 3684 990 3685 991 3686 992 3687 993 3688 9943689 995 3690 996 3691 997 3692 998 3693 999 3694 1000 3695 1001 36961002 3697 1003 3698 1004 3699 1005 3700 1006 3701 1007 3702 1008 37031009 3704 1010 3705 1011 3706 1012 3707 1013 3708 1014 3709 1015 37101016 3711 1017 3712 1018 3713 1019 3714 1020 3715 1021 3716 1022 37171023 3718 1024 3719 1025 3720 1026 3721 1027 3722 1028 3723 1029 37241030 3725 1031 3726 1032 3727 1033 3728 1034 3729 1035 3730 1036 37311037 3732 1038 3733 1039 3734 1040 3735 1041 3736 1042 3737 1043 37381044 3739 1045 3740 1046 3741 1047 3742 1048 3743 1049 3744 1050 37451051 3746 1052 3747 1053 3748 1054 3749 1055 3750 1056 3751 1057 37521058 3753 1059 3754 1060 3755 1061 3756 1062 3757 1063 3758 1064 37591065 3760 1066 3761 1067 3762 1068 3763 1069 3764 1070 3765 1071 37661072 3767 1073 3768 1074 3769 1075 3770 1076 3771 1077 3772 1078 37731079 3774 1080 3775 1081 3776 1082 3777 1083 3778 1084 3779 1085 37801086 3781 1087 NONE 1088 3782 1089 3783 1090 3784 1091 3785 1092 37861093 3787 1094 3788 1095 3789 1096 3790 1097 3791 1098 3792 1099 37931100 3794 1101 3795 1102 3796 1103 3797 1104 3798 1105 3799 1106 38001107 3801 1108 3802 1109 3803 1110 3804 1111 3805 1112 3806 1113 38071114 3808 1115 3809 1116 3810 1117 3811 1118 3812 1119 3813 1120 38141121 3815 1122 3816 1123 3817 1124 3818 1125 3819 1126 3820 1127 38211128 3822 1129 3823 1130 3824 1131 3825 1132 3826 1133 3827 1134 38281135 3829 1136 3830 1137 3831 1138 3832 1139 3833 1140 3834 1141 38351142 3836 1143 3837 1144 3838 1145 3839 1146 3840 1147 3841 1148 38421149 3843 1150 3844 1151 3845 1152 3846 1153 3847 1154 3848 1155 38491156 3850 1157 3851 1158 3852 1159 3853 1160 3854 1161 3855 1162 38561163 3857 1164 3858 1165 3859 1166 3860 1167 3861 1168 3862 1169 38631170 3864 1171 3865 1172 3866 1173 3867 1174 3868 1175 3869 1176 38701177 3871 1178 3872 1179 3873 1180 3874 1181 3875 1182 3876 1183 38771184 3878 1185 3879 1186 3880 1187 3881 1188 3882 1189 3883 1190 38841191 3885 1192 3886 1193 3887 1194 3888 1195 3889 1196 3890 1197 38911198 3892 1199 3893 1200 3894 1201 3895 1202 3896 1203 3897 1204 38981205 3899 1206 3900 1207 3901 1208 3902 1209 3903 1210 3904 1211 39051212 3906 1213 3907 1214 3908 1215 3909 1216 3910 1217 3911 1218 39121219 3913 1220 3914 1221 3915 1222 3916 1223 3917 1224 3918 1225 39191226 3920 1227 3921 1228 3922 1229 3923 1230 3924 1231 3925 1232 39261233 3927 1234 3928 1235 3929 1236 3930 1237 3931 1238 3932 1239 39331240 3934 1241 3935 1242 3936 1243 3937 1244 3938 1245 3939 1246 39401247 3941 1248 3942 1249 3943 1250 3944 1251 3945 1252 3946 1253 39471254 3948 1255 3949 1256 3950 1257 3951 1258 3952 1259 3953 1260 39541261 3955 1262 3956 1263 3957 1264 3958 1265 3959 1266 3960 1267 39611268 3962 1269 3963 1270 3964 1271 3965 1272 3966 1273 3967 1274 39681275 3969 1276 3970 1277 3971 1278 3972 1279 3973 1280 3974 1281 39751282 3976 1283 3977 1284 3978 1285 3979 1286 3980 1287 3981 1288 39821289 3983 1290 3984 1291 3985 1292 3986 1293 3987 1294 3988 1295 39891296 3990 1297 3991 1298 3992 1299 3993 1300 3994 1301 3995 1302 39961303 3997 1304 3998 1305 3999 1306 4000 1307 4001 1308 4002 1309 40031310 4004 1311 4005 1312 4006 1313 4007 1314 4008 1315 4009 1316 40101317 4011 1318 4012 1319 4013 1320 4014 1321 4015 1322 4016 1323 40171324 4018 1325 4019 1326 4020 1327 4021 1328 4022 1329 4023 1330 NONE1331 4024 1332 4025 1333 4026 1334 4027 1335 4028 1336 4029 1337 40301338 4031 1339 4032 1340 4033 1341 4034 1342 4035 1343 4036 1344 40371345 4038 1346 4039 1347 4040 1348 4041 1349 4042 1350 4043 1351 40441352 4045 1353 4046 1354 4047 1355 4048 1356 4049 1357 4050 1358 40511359 4052 1360 4053 1361 4054 1362 4055 1363 4056 1364 4057 1365 40581366 4059 1367 4060 1368 4061 1369 4062 1370 4063 1371 4064 1372 40651373 4066 1374 4067 1375 4068 1376 4069 1377 4070 1378 4071 1379 40721380 4073 1381 4074 1382 4075 1383 4076 1384 4077 1385 4078 1386 40791387 4080 1388 4081 1389 4082 1390 4083 1391 4084 1392 4085 1393 40861394 4087 1395 4088 1396 4089 1397 4090 1398 4091 1399 4092 1400 40931401 4094 1402 4095 1403 4096 1404 4097 1405 4098 1406 4099 1407 41001408 4101 1409 4102 1410 4103 1411 4104 1412 4105 1413 4106 1414 41071415 4108 1416 4109 1417 4110 1418 4111 1419 4112 1420 4113 1421 41141422 4115 1423 4116 1424 4117 1425 4118 1426 4119 1427 4120 1428 41211429 4122 1430 4123 1431 4124 1432 NONE 1433 4125 1434 4126 1435 41271436 4128 1437 4129 1438 4130 1439 4131 1440 4132 1441 4133 1442 41341443 4135 1444 4136 1445 4137 1446 4138 1447 4139 1448 4140 1449 41411450 4142 1451 4143 1452 4144 1453 4145 1454 4146 1455 4147 1456 41481457 4149 1458 4150 1459 4151 1460 4152 1461 4153 1462 4154 1463 41551464 4156 1465 4157 1466 4158 1467 4159 1468 4160 1469 4161 1470 41621471 4163 1472 4164 1473 4165 1474 4166 1475 4167 1476 4168 1477 41691478 4170 1479 4171 1480 4172 1481 4173 1482 4174 1483 4175 1484 41761485 4177 1486 4178 1487 4179 1488 4180 1489 4181 1490 4182 1491 41831492 4184 1493 4185 1494 4186 1495 4187 1496 4188 1497 4189 1498 41901499 4191 1500 4192 1501 4193 1502 4194 1503 4195 1504 4196 1505 41971506 4198 1507 4199 1508 4200 1509 4201 1510 4202 1511 4203 1512 42041513 4205 1514 4206 1515 4207 1516 4208 1517 4209 1518 4210 1519 42111520 4212 1521 4213 1522 4214 1523 4215 1524 4216 1525 4217 1526 42181527 4219 1528 4220 1529 4221 1530 4222 1531 4223 1532 4224 1533 42251534 4226 1535 4227 1536 4228 1537 4229 1538 4230 1539 4231 1540 42321541 4233 1542 4234 1543 4235 1544 4236 1545 4237 1546 4238 1547 42391548 4240 1549 4241 1550 4242 1551 4243 1552 4244 1553 4245 1554 42461555 4247 1556 4248 1557 4249 1558 NONE 1559 4250 1560 4251 1561 42521562 4253 1563 4254 1564 4255 1565 4256 1566 4257 1567 4258 1568 42591569 4260 1570 4261 1571 4262 1572 4263 1573 4264 1574 4265 1575 42661576 4267 1577 4268 1578 4269 1579 4270 1580 4271 1581 4272 1582 42731583 4274 1584 4275 1585 4276 1586 4277 1587 4278 1588 4279 1589 42801590 4281 1591 4282 1592 4283 1593 4284 1594 4285 1595 4286 1596 42871597 4288 1598 4289 1599 4290 1600 4291 1601 4292 1602 4293 1603 42941604 4295 1605 4296 1606 4297 1607 4298 1608 4299 1609 4300 1610 43011611 4302 1612 4303 1613 4304 1614 4305 1615 4306 1616 4307 1617 43081618 4309 1619 4310 1620 4311 1621 4312 1622 4313 1623 4314 1624 43151625 4316 1626 4317 1627 4318 1628 4319 1629 4320 1630 4321 1631 43221632 4323 1633 4324 1634 4325 1635 4326 1636 4327 1637 4328 1638 43291639 4330 1640 4331 1641 4332 1642 4333 1643 4334 1644 4335 1645 43361646 4337 1647 4338 1648 4339 1649 4340 1650 4341 1651 4342 1652 43431653 4344 1654 4345 1655 4346 1656 4347 1657 4348 1658 4349 1659 43501660 4351 1661 4352 1662 4353 1663 NONE 1664 4354 1665 4355 1666 43561667 4357 1668 4358 1669 4359 1670 4360 1671 4361 1672 4362 1673 43631674 4364 1675 4365 1676 4366 1677 4367 1678 4368 1679 4369 1680 43701681 4371 1682 4372 1683 4373 1684 4374 1685 4375 1686 4376 1687 43771688 4378 1689 4379 1690 4380 1691 4381 1692 4382 1693 4383 1694 43841695 4385 1696 4386 1697 4387 1698 4388 1699 4389 1700 4390 1701 43911702 4392 1703 4393 1704 4394 1705 4395 1706 4396 1707 4397 1708 43981709 4399 1710 4400 1711 4401 1712 NONE 1713 4402 1714 4403 1715 44041716 4405 1717 4406 1718 4407 1719 4408 1720 4409 1721 4410 1722 44111723 4412 1724 4413 1725 4414 1726 4415 1727 4416 1728 4417 1729 44181730 4419 1731 4420 1732 4421 1733 4422 1734 4423 1735 4424 1736 44251737 4426 1738 4427 1739 4428 1740 4429 1741 4430 1742 4431 1743 44321744 4433 1745 4434 1746 4435 1747 4436 1748 4437 1749 4438 1750 44391751 4440 1752 4441 1753 4442 1754 4443 1755 4444 1756 4445 1757 44461758 4447 1759 4448 1760 4449 1761 4450 1762 4451 1763 4452 1764 44531765 4454 1766 4455 1767 4456 1768 4457 1769 4458 1770 4459 1771 44601772 4461 1773 4462 1774 4463 1775 4464 1776 4465 1777 4466 1778 44671779 4468 1780 4469 1781 4470 1782 4471 1783 4472 1784 NONE 1785 44731786 4474 1787 4475 1788 4476 1789 4477 1790 4478 1791 4479 1792 44801793 4481 1794 4482 1795 4483 1796 4484 1797 4485 1798 4486 1799 44871800 4488 1801 4489 1802 4490 1803 NONE 1804 4491 1805 4492 1806 44931807 4494 1808 4495 1809 4496 1810 4497 1811 4498 1812 4499 1813 45001814 4501 1815 4502 1816 4503 1817 4504 1818 4505 1819 4506 1820 45071821 4508 1822 4509 1823 4510 1824 4511 1825 4512 1826 4513 1827 45141828 4515 1829 4516 1830 4517 1831 4518 1832 4519 1833 4520 1834 45211835 4522 1836 4523 1837 4524 1838 4525 1839 4526 1840 4527 1841 45281842 4529 1843 4530 1844 4531 1845 4532 1846 4533 1847 4534 1848 45351849 4536 1850 4537 1851 4538 1852 4539 1853 4540 1854 4541 1855 45421856 4543 1857 4544 1858 4545 1859 4546 1860 4547 1861 4548 1862 45491863 4550 1864 4551 1865 4552 1866 4553 1867 4554 1868 4555 1869 45561870 4557 1871 4558 1872 4559 1873 4560 1874 4561 1875 4562 1876 45631877 4564 1878 4565 1879 4566 1880 4567 1881 4568 1882 4569 1883 45701884 4571 1885 4572 1886 4573 1887 4574 1888 4575 1889 4576 1890 45771891 4578 1892 4579 1893 4580 1894 4581 1895 4582 1896 4583 1897 NONE1898 4584 1899 4585 1900 4586 1901 4587 1902 4588 1903 4589 1904 45901905 4591 1906 4592 1907 NONE 1908 4593 1909 4594 1910 4595 1911 45961912 4597 1913 4598 1914 4599 1915 4600 1916 4601 1917 4602 1918 46031919 4604 1920 4605 1921 4606 1922 4607 1923 4608 1924 4609 1925 46101926 4611 1927 4612 1928 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2030 NONE2031 4715 2032 4716 2033 4717 2034 4718 2035 4719 2036 4720 2037 47212038 4722 2039 4723 2040 4724 2041 4725 2042 4726 2043 4727 2044 47282045 4729 2046 4730 2047 4731 2048 4732 2049 4733 2050 4734 2051 47352052 4736 2053 4737 2054 4738 2055 4739 2056 4740 2057 4741 2058 47422059 4743 2060 4744 2061 4745 2062 4746 2063 4747 2064 4748 2065 47492066 4750 2067 4751 2068 4752 2069 4753 2070 4754 2071 4755 2072 47562073 4757 2074 4758 2075 4759 2076 4760 2077 4761 2078 4762 2079 47632080 4764 2081 4765 2082 4766 2083 4767 2084 4768 2085 4769 2086 47702087 4771 2088 4772 2089 4773 2090 4774 2091 4775 2092 4776 2093 47772094 4778 2095 4779 2096 4780 2097 4781 2098 4782 2099 4783 2100 47842101 4785 2102 4786 2103 4787 2104 4788 2105 4789 2106 4790 2107 47912108 4792 2109 4793 2110 4794 2111 4795 2112 4796 2113 4797 2114 47982115 4799 2116 4800 2117 4801 2118 4802 2119 4803 2120 4804 2121 48052122 4806 2123 4807 2124 4808 2125 4809 2126 4810 2127 4811 2128 48122129 4813 2130 4814 2131 4815 2132 4816 2133 4817 2134 4818 2135 48192136 4820 2137 4821 2138 4822 2139 4823 2140 4824 2141 4825 2142 48262143 4827 2144 4828 2145 4829 2146 4830 2147 4831 2148 4832 2149 48332150 4834 2151 NONE 2152 4835 2153 4836 2154 4837 2155 4838 2156 48392157 4840 2158 4841 2159 4842 2160 4843 2161 4844 2162 4845 2163 48462164 4847 2165 4848 2166 4849 2167 4850 2168 4851 2169 4852 2170 48532171 4854 2172 4855 2173 4856 2174 4857 2175 4858 2176 4859 2177 48602178 4861 2179 4862 2180 4863 2181 4864 2182 4865 2183 4866 2184 48672185 4868 2186 4869 2187 4870 2188 4871 2189 4872 2190 4873 2191 48742192 4875 2193 4876 2194 4877 2195 4878 2196 4879 2197 4880 2198 48812199 4882 2200 4883 2201 4884 2202 4885 2203 4886 2204 4887 2205 48882206 4889 2207 4890 2208 4891 2209 4892 2210 4893 2211 4894 2212 48952213 4896 2214 4897 2215 4898 2216 4899 2217 4900 2218 4901 2219 49022220 4903 2221 4904 2222 4905 2223 4906 2224 4907 2225 4908 2226 49092227 4910 2228 4911 2229 4912 2230 4913 2231 4914 2232 4915 2233 49162234 4917 2235 4918 2236 4919 2237 4920 2238 4921 2239 4922 2240 49232241 4924 2242 4925 2243 4926 2244 4927 2245 4928 2246 4929 2247 49302248 NONE 2249 4931 2250 4932 2251 4933 2252 4934 2253 4935 2254 49362255 4937 2256 4938 2257 4939 2258 4940 2259 4941 2260 4942 2261 49432262 4944 2263 4945 2264 4946 2265 4947 2266 4948 2267 4949 2268 49502269 4951 2270 4952 2271 4953 2272 4954 2273 4955 2274 4956 2275 49572276 4958 2277 4959 2278 4960 2279 4961 2280 4962 2281 4963 2282 49642283 4965 2284 4966 2285 4967 2286 4968 2287 4969 2288 4970 2289 49712290 4972 2291 4973 2292 4974 2293 4975 2294 4976 2295 4977 2296 49782297 4979 2298 4980 2299 4981 2300 4982 2301 4983 2302 4984 2303 49852304 4986 2305 4987 2306 4988 2307 4989 2308 4990 2309 4991 2310 49922311 4993 2312 4994 2313 4995 2314 4996 2315 4997 2316 4998 2317 49992318 5000 2319 5001 2320 5002 2321 5003 2322 5004 2323 5005 2324 50062325 5007 2326 5008 2327 5009 2328 5010 2329 5011 2330 5012 2331 50132332 5014 2333 5015 2334 5016 2335 5017 2336 5018 2337 5019 2338 50202339 5021 2340 NONE 2341 5022 2342 5023 2343 5024 2344 5025 2345 50262346 5027 2347 5028 2348 5029 2349 5030 2350 5031 2351 5032 2352 50332353 5034 2354 5035 2355 5036 2356 5037 2357 5038 2358 5039 2359 50402360 5041 2361 5042 2362 5043 2363 5044 2364 5045 2365 5046 2366 50472367 5048 2368 5049 2369 5050 2370 5051 2371 NONE 2372 5052 2373 50532374 5054 2375 5055 2376 5056 2377 5057 2378 5058 2379 5059 2380 50602381 5061 2382 5062 2383 5063 2384 5064 2385 5065 2386 5066 2387 50672388 5068 2389 5069 2390 5070 2391 5071 2392 5072 2393 5073 2394 50742395 5075 2396 5076 2397 5077 2398 5078 2399 5079 2400 5080 2401 50812402 5082 2403 5083 2404 5084 2405 5085 2406 5086 2407 5087 2408 50882409 5089 2410 5090 2411 5091 2412 5092 2413 5093 2414 5094 2415 50952416 5096 2417 5097 2418 5098 2419 5099 2420 5100 2421 5101 2422 51022423 5103 2424 5104 2425 5105 2426 5106 2427 5107 2428 5108 2429 51092430 5110 2431 5111 2432 5112 2433 5113 2434 5114 2435 5115 2436 51162437 5117 2438 5118 2439 5119 2440 5120 2441 5121 2442 5122 2443 NONE2444 5123 2445 5124 2446 5125 2447 5126 2448 5127 2449 5128 2450 51292451 5130 2452 5131 2453 5132 2454 5133 2455 5134 2456 5135 2457 51362458 5137 2459 5138 2460 5139 2461 5140 2462 5141 2463 5142 2464 51432465 5144 2466 5145 2467 5146 2468 5147 2469 NONE 2470 5148 2471 51492472 5150 2473 5151 2474 5152 2475 5153 2476 5154 2477 5155 2478 51562479 5157 2480 5158 2481 5159 2482 5160 2483 5161 2484 5162 2485 51632486 5164 2487 5165 2488 5166 2489 5167 2490 5168 2491 5169 2492 51702493 5171 2494 5172 2495 5173 2496 5174 2497 5175 2498 5176 2499 51772500 5178 2501 5179 2502 5180 2503 5181 2504 5182 2505 5183 2506 51842507 5185 2508 5186 2509 5187 2510 5188 2511 5189 2512 5190 2513 51912514 5192 2515 5193 2516 5194 2517 5195 2518 5196 2519 5197 2520 51982521 5199 2522 5200 2523 5201 2524 5202 2525 5203 2526 5204 2527 52052528 5206 2529 5207 2530 5208 2531 5209 2532 5210 2533 5211 2534 52122535 5213 2536 5214 2537 5215 2538 5216 2539 5217 2540 5218 2541 52192542 5220 2543 5221 2544 5222 2545 5223 2546 5224 2547 5225 2548 52262549 5227 2550 5228 2551 5229 2552 5230 2553 5231 2554 5232 2555 52332556 5234 2557 5235 2558 5236 2559 5237 2560 5238 2561 5239 2562 52402563 5241 2564 5242 2565 5243 2566 5244 2567 5245 2568 5246 2569 52472570 5248 2571 5249 2572 5250 2573 5251 2574 5252 2575 5253 2576 52542577 5255 2578 5256 2579 5257 2580 5258 2581 5259 2582 5260 2583 52612584 5262 2585 5263 2586 5264 2587 5265 2588 5266 2589 5267 2590 52682591 5269 2592 5270 2593 5271 2594 5272 2595 5273 2596 5274 2597 52752598 5276 2599 NONE 2600 5277 2601 5278 2602 5279 2603 5280 2604 52812605 5282 2606 5283 2607 5284 2608 5285 2609 5286 2610 5287 2611 52882612 5289 2613 5290 2614 5291 2615 5292 2616 5293 2617 5294 2618 52952619 5296 2620 5297 2621 5298 2622 5299 2623 5300 2624 5301 2625 53022626 5303 2627 5304 2628 5305 2629 5306 2630 5307 2631 5308 2632 53092633 5310 2634 5311 2635 5312 2636 5313 2637 5314 2638 5315 2639 53162640 5317 2641 5318 2642 5319 2643 5320 2644 5321 2645 5322 2646 53232647 5324 2648 5325 2649 5326 2650 5327 2651 5328 2652 5329 2653 53302654 5331 2655 5332 2656 5333 2657 5334 2658 5335 2659 5336 2660 53372661 5338 2662 5339 2663 5340 2664 5341 2665 5342 2666 5343 2667 53442668 5345 2669 5346 2670 5347 2671 5348 2672 5349 2673 5350 2674 53512675 5352 2676 5353 2677 5354 2678 5355 2679 5356 2680 5357 2681 NONE2682 5358 2683 5359 2684 5360 2685 5361 2686 5362 2687 5363 2688 53642689 5365 2690 5366 2691 5367 2692 5368 2693 5369 2694 5370 2695 53712696 5372 2697 5373 2698 5374 2699 5375 2700 5376 2701 5377 2702 53782703 5379

TABLE 3 COLD RESPONSIVE SEQUENCES SEQ AFFYMETRIX ID NO: ID NO: 111991_G_AT 2 11992_AT 3 11997_AT 4 11998_AT 5 12001_AT 6 12006_S_AT 712007_AT 8 12009_AT 9 12018_AT 10 12022_AT 11 12026_AT 12 12031_AT 1312047_AT 14 12051_AT 15 12052_AT 16 12053_AT 17 12060_AT 18 12072_AT 1912074_AT 20 12102_AT 21 12112_AT 22 12117_AT 23 12125_AT 24 12130_AT 2512143_AT 26 12145_S_AT 27 12149_AT 28 12156_AT 29 12163_AT 30 12166_I_AT31 12167_AT 32 12169_I_AT 33 12175_AT 34 12176_AT 35 12179_AT 3612187_AT 15920_I_AT 37 12195_AT 38 12196_AT 39 12198_AT 40 12200_AT 4112202_AT 42 12214_G_AT 43 12219_AT 44 12224_AT 45 12226_AT 46 12233_AT47 12240_AT 48 12253_G_AT 49 12256_AT 50 12269_S_AT 51 12270_AT 5212284_AT 53 12287_S_AT 17570_G_AT 54 12293_AT 55 12294_S_AT 56 12300_AT57 12307_AT 58 12312_AT 59 12315_AT 60 12324_I_AT 61 12331_S_AT 6212336_AT 63 12344_AT 64 12348_AT 65 12353_AT 66 12359_S_AT 67 12372_AT68 12374_I_AT 12726_F_AT 69 12390_AT 70 12395_S_AT 71 12405_AT 7212408_AT 73 12410_G_AT 74 12419_AT 75 12427_AT 76 12431_AT 77 12436_AT78 12438_AT 79 12443_S_AT 80 12447_AT 81 12450_S_AT 82 12452_AT 8312474_AT 84 12477_AT 85 12491_AT 86 12497_AT 87 12500_S_AT 88 12503_AT89 12515_AT 90 12516_S_AT 91 12523_AT 92 12526_AT 93 12527_AT 9412532_AT 95 12534_G_AT 96 12544_AT 97 12549_S_AT 98 12550_S_AT17103_S_AT 99 12552_AT 100 12555_S_AT 101 12576_S_AT 102 12581_S_AT16645_S_AT 103 12587_AT 104 12597_AT 105 12602_AT 106 12610_AT 10712631_AT 108 12646_AT 109 12649_AT 110 12650_AT 111 12653_AT 11212661_AT 113 12666_AT 114 12674_AT 115 12675_S_AT 116 12678_I_AT 11712681_S_AT 118 12688_AT 119 12702_AT 120 12705_F_AT 121 12736_F_AT 12212737_F_AT 123 12758_AT 124 12760_G_AT 125 12762_R_AT 126 12764_F_AT 12712766_AT 15115_F_AT 128 12767_AT 129 12768_AT 130 12772_AT 131 12773_AT132 12776_AT 133 12788_AT 134 12793_AT 135 12794_AT 136 12802_AT 13712809_G_AT 138 12812_AT 139 12815_AT 140 12816_AT 141 12818_AT 14212824_S_AT 143 12828_S_AT 144 12842_S_AT

TABLE 6 (cont): 2X DOWN COLD, ONLY 145 12846_S_AT 146 12858_AT 14712860_S_AT 148 12861_S_AT 149 12881_S_AT 17600_S_AT 150 12889_S_AT 15112901_S_AT 152 12902_AT 153 12904_S_AT 154 12905_S_AT 155 12908_S_AT 15612910_S_AT 16385_S_AT 157 12914_S_AT 15783_S_AT 17645_S_AT 15812916_S_AT 159 12923_S_AT 160 12926_S_AT 161 12927_S_AT 162 12931_S_AT163 12937_R_AT 164 12941_G_AT 165 12942_AT 166 12947_AT 167 12949_AT 16812953_AT 169 12956_I_AT 170 12959_AT 171 12966_S_AT 172 12975_AT 17312983_AT 174 12984_AT 175 12987_S_AT 176 12994_S_AT 177 13002_AT 17813009_I_AT 179 13011_AT 180 13018_AT 181 13023_AT 182 13024_AT 18313034_S_AT 184 13046_G_AT 185 13048_S_AT 13495_S_AT 186 13054_AT 18713067_S_AT 188 13068_AT 189 13073_S_AT 190 13078_S_AT 191 13079_AT 19213081_S_AT 193 13083_AT 194 13086_R_AT 195 13087_AT 196 13090_AT 19713092_S_AT 16950_S_AT 198 13098_AT 199 13100_AT 200 13103_AT 20113105_AT 202 13107_S_AT 203 13108_AT 204 13109_AT 205 13114_AT 20613118_F_AT 207 13119_AT 208 13120_AT 209 13123_AT 210 13128_AT 21113133_S_AT 17430_S_AT 212 13135_S_AT 213 13139_AT 214 13140_AT 21513143_AT 216 13151_G_AT 217 13160_AT 218 13161_AT 219 13162_AT 22013165_AT 221 13166_AT 222 13167_AT 223 13179_AT 224 13181_AT 22513185_AT 226 13193_S_AT 227 13213_S_AT 16004_S_AT 228 13219_S_AT20288_G_AT 229 13220_S_AT 13221_AT 18929_S_AT 230 13233_AT 14301_S_AT231 13243_R_AT 232 13254_S_AT 233 13260_S_AT 15660_S_AT 234 13273_S_AT16105_S_AT 235 13274_S_AT 17077_S_AT 236 13276_S_AT 237 13278_F_AT 23813285_S_AT 239 13288_S_AT 17043_S_AT 240 13292_S_AT 241 13296_S_AT 24213297_S_AT 243 13299_S_AT 15166_S_AT 244 13332_AT 245 13347_AT 24613351_AT 247 13352_AT 248 13355_AT 249 13404_AT 250 13422_AT 25113459_AT 252 13460_AT 253 13461_S_AT 254 13467_AT 255 13488_AT 25613523_S_AT 257 13529_AT 258 13539_I_AT 14631_S_AT 259 13541_AT 26013542_AT 261 13545_S_AT 262 13552_AT 263 13556_I_AT 264 13561_AT 26513563_S_AT 266 13567_AT 267 13568_AT 268 13571_AT 269 13575_AT 27013576_AT 271 13583_AT 272 13598_AT 273 13601_AT 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19963_at 19969_at19970_s_at 19972_at 19981_at 19990_at 19996_at 19999_s_at 20009_s_at20013_at 20017_at 20018_at 20024_s_at 20045_at 20047_at 20048_at20050_at 20051_at 20058_at 20067_at 20069_at 20099_at 20100_at20113_s_at 20123_at 20127_s_at 20129_at 20133_i_at 20152_at 20154_at20173_at 20178_s_at 20183_at 20188_at 20189_at 20197_at 20200_at20210_g_at 20213_at 20229_at 20232_s_at 20255_at 20278_s_at 20284_at20288_g_at 20294_at 20312_s_at 20331_at 20335_s_at 20350_s_at 20354_s_at20355_at 20369_s_at 20378_g_at 20383_at 20385_s_at 20387_at 20399_at20409_g_at 20420_at 20429_s_at 20439_at 20440_at 20444_at 20445_at20449_at 20474_at 20480_s_at 20495_s_at 20499_at 20501_at 20516_at20520_s_at 20530_s_at 20538_s_at 20547_at 20558_at 20561_at 20567_at20571_at 20590_at 20592_at 20594_at 20608_s_at 20612_s_at 20616_at20620_g_at 20635_s_at 20637_at 20643_at 20654_s_at 20670_at 20674_s_at20684_at 20685_at 20689_s_at 20693_at 20701_s_at 20704_at 20707_s_at20719_at

TABLE 7 SALINE STRESS RESPONSIVE SEQUENCES SEQ AFFYMETRIX ID NO: ID NO:2227 12011_S_AT 2228 12153_AT 2229 12180_AT 2230 12186_AT 2231 12216_AT2232 12265_AT 2233 12335_AT 2234 12449_S_AT 2235 12470_AT 2236 12479_AT2237 12487_AT 2238 12493_G_AT 2239 12562_AT 2240 12685_AT 224112704_F_AT 2242 12709_F_AT 2243 12734_F_AT 2244 12739_S_AT 224512750_S_AT 2246 12761_S_AT 2247 12813_AT 2248 12845_S_AT 2249 12946_AT2250 13003_S_AT 2251 13052_S_AT 2252 13094_AT 2253 13142_AT 225413172_S_AT 17880_S_AT 2255 13198_I_AT 2256 13209_S_AT 16165_S_AT 225713229_S_AT 2258 13253_F_AT 2259 13344_S_AT 2260 13370_AT 2261 13387_AT2262 13408_S_AT 2263 13429_AT 2264 13472_AT 2265 13526_AT 2266 13569_AT2267 13614_AT 2268 13686_S_AT 2269 13718_AT 2270 13719_AT 2271 13902_AT2272 13918_AT 2273 13944_AT 2274 13964_AT 2275 13993_S_AT 2276 14000_AT2277 14003_AT 2278 14032_AT 2279 14043_AT 2280 14070_AT 2281 14267_AT2282 14269_AT 2283 14418_AT 2284 14427_AT 2285 14501_AT 2286 14544_AT2287 14546_S_AT 2288 14570_AT 2289 14596_AT 2290 14729_S_AT 229114874_AT 2292 14888_AT 2293 14951_AT 2294 14952_AT 2295 14959_AT 229614979_AT 2297 15006_AT 2298 15042_AT 2299 15049_AT 2300 15062_AT 230115108_S_AT 2302 15147_S_AT 2303 15175_S_AT 2304 15176_S_AT 230515186_S_AT 18696_S_AT 2306 15192_S_AT 2307 15208_S_AT 2308 15324_AT 230915371_AT 2310 15424_AT 2311 15463_AT 2312 15465_AT 2313 15497_S_AT 231415589_S_AT 2315 15636_S_AT 2316 15663_S_AT 2317 15770_AT 2318 15792_AT2319 15855_AT 2320 15860_AT 2321 15891_AT 2322 15898_AT 2323 15909_AT2324 15965_AT 2325 15969_S_AT 2326 15975_S_AT 2327 15995_S_AT 232815998_S_AT 18090_S_AT 2329 16028_AT 2330 16050_AT 2331 16060_S_AT 233216067_S_AT 2333 16072_S_AT 2334 16088_F_AT 2335 16273_AT 2336 16314_AT2337 16413_S_AT 2338 16414_AT 2339 16426_AT 2340 16436_AT 2341 16455_AT2342 16502_AT 2343 16548_S_AT 2344 16568_S_AT 2345 16582_S_AT 234616589_S_AT 2347 16594_S_AT 2348 16613_S_AT 2349 16651_S_AT 2350 16668_AT2351 16820_AT 2352 16987_S_AT 2353 16995_AT 2354 17039_S_AT 235517273_AT 2356 17278_AT 2357 17433_AT 2358 17467_AT 2359 17566_AT 236017595_S_AT 2361 17744_S_AT 2362 17758_AT 2363 17864_AT 2364 17868_AT2365 17876_AT 2366 17894_AT 2367 17942_S_AT 2368 18008_R_AT 236918027_AT 2370 18053_S_AT 2371 18062_AT 2372 18082_AT 2373 18121_S_AT2374 18240_S_AT 2375 18248_S_AT 2376 18264_AT 2377 18276_AT 237818287_AT 2379 18310_AT 2380 18367_S_AT 2381 18506_AT 2382 18605_S_AT2383 18618_S_AT 2384 18626_AT 2385 18666_S_AT 2386 18834_AT 238718847_AT 2388 18896_AT 2389 18899_S_AT 2390 18973_AT 2391 18983_S_AT2392 18988_AT 2393 18998_S_AT 2394 19065_AT 2395 19119_I_AT 19121_AT2396 19207_AT 2397 19220_AT 2398 19284_AT 2399 19315_AT 2400 19348_AT2401 19403_S_AT 2402 19437_S_AT 2403 19502_AT 2404 19609_AT 240519645_AT 2406 19742_AT 2407 19863_AT 2408 19873_AT 2409 19891_AT 241020004_S_AT 2411 20053_AT 2412 20138_AT 2413 20193_AT 2414 20199_AT 241520220_AT 2416 20239_G_AT 2417 20297_AT 2418 20324_S_AT 2419 20353_AT2420 20362_AT 2421 20389_AT 2422 20546_AT 2423 20600_AT 2424 20623_AT2425 20629_AT 2426 20648_S_AT 2427 20668_AT

TABLE 8 2X UP IN SALT, ONLY 12037_at 12137_at 12153_at 12186_at 12216_at12268_at 12449_s_at 12470_at 12476_at 12487_at 12493_g_at 12609_at12685_at 12704_f_at 12709_f_at 12734_f_at 12739_s_at 12750_s_at12761_s_at 12819_at 12845_s_at 12946_at 13142_at 13198_i_at 13229_s_at13275_f_at 13344_s_at 13370_at 13408_s_at 13464_at 13472_at 13526_at13614_at 13652_at 13679_s_at 13751_at 13918_at 13919_at 13944_at13964_at 13987_s_at 13993_s_at 14000_at 14032_at 14043_at 14052_at14067_at 14070_at 14269_at 14285_at 14427_at 14501_at 14540_at 14570_at14578_s_at 14596_at 14646_s_at 14662_f_at 14668_s_at 14729_s_at 14874_at14888_at 14918_at 14952_at 14959_at 14986_at 15006_at 15042_at 15047_at15062_at 15063_at 15108_s_at 15133_s_at 15147_s_at 15170_s_at 15175_s_at15182_s_at 15190_s_at 15192_s_at 15324_at 15392_at 15424_at 15467_at15497_s_at 15581_s_at 15623_f_at 15636_s_at 15646_s_at 15670_s_at15770_at 15775_at 15778_at 15792_at 15855_at 15891_at 15909_at 15923_at15969_s_at 15975_s_at 15995_s_at 15998_s_at 16017_at 16050_at 16067_s_at16072_s_at 16165_s_at 16190_at 16196_at 16273_at 16314_at 16413_s_at16414_at 16417_s_at 16455_at 16548_s_at 16582_s_at 16589_s_at 16594_s_at16613_s_at 16651_s_at 16668_at 16690_g_at 16762_at 16820_at 16873_i_at16987_s_at 16989_at 16995_at 17039_s_at 17040_s_at 17400_s_at 17425_s_at17433_at 17467_at 17490_s_at 17529_s_at 17543_s_at 17566_at 17595_s_at17744_s_at 17758_at 17855_at 17864_at 17876_at 18008_r_at 18013_r_at18024_s_at 18027_at 18053_s_at 18078_at 18082_at 18090_s_at 18091_at18121_s_at 18264_at 18276_at 18300_at 18367_s_at 18471_at 18506_at18605_s_at 18626_at 18666_s_at 18747_f_at 18782_at 18834_at 18847_at18913_s_at 18973_at 18988_at 18998_s_at 19065_at 19068_i_at 19123_at19177_at 19220_at 19284_at 19288_at 19315_at 19437_s_at 19484_s_at19502_at 19503_at 19592_at 19645_at 19742_at 19835_at 19873_at 19891_at19992_at 20004_s_at 20053_at 20133_i_at 20138_at 20190_at 20199_at20200_at 20297_at 20324_s_at 20335_s_at 20353_at 20362_at 20385_s_at20389_at 20402_s_at 20450_at 20468_at 20489_at 20546_at 20569_s_at20600_at 20623_at 20648_s_at 20678_at 20686_at 20707_s_at

TABLE 9 2X UP SALT, 3 HR ONLY 12037_at 12137_at 12153_at 12186_at12216_at 12268_at 12470_at 12476_at 12487_at 12493_g_at 12609_at12685_at 12704_f_at 12709_f_at 12734_f_at 12739_s_at 12750_s_at 12819_at12946_at 13142_at 13229_s_at 13275_f_at 13370_at 13408_s_at 13464_at13472_at 13614_at 13652_at 13679_s_at 13918_at 13919_at 13944_at13987_s_at 13993_s_at 14000_at 14032_at 14043_at 14052_at 14067_at14269_at 14285_at 14501_at 14540_at 14570_at 14596_at 14668_s_at14729_s_at 14888_at 14918_at 14952_at 14959_at 14986_at 15006_at15042_at 15047_at 15062_at 15063_at 15108_s_at 15133_s_at 15147_s_at15170_s_at 15175_s_at 15182_s_at 15190_s_at 15192_s_at 15324_at 15424_at15467_at 15497_s_at 15623_f_at 15636_s_at 15646_s_at 15670_s_at 15770_at15775_at 15778_at 15792_at 15855_at 15891_at 15909_at 15923_at15969_s_at 15975_s_at 15995_s_at 15998_s_at 16017_at 16050_at 16067_s_at16072_s_at 16165_s_at 16196_at 16273_at 16314_at 16414_at 16417_s_at16455_at 16548_s_at 16582_s_at 16589_s_at 16594_s_at 16613_s_at16651_s_at 16668_at 16762_at 16820_at 16873_i_at 16987_s_at 16989_at17039_s_at 17040_s_at 17425_s_at 17433_at 17490_s_at 17543_s_at17744_s_at 17864_at 17876_at 18008_r_at 18013_r_at 18024_s_at 18027_at18053_s_at 18078_at 18082_at 18090_s_at 18091_at 18121_s_at 18264_at18276_at 18367_s_at 18471_at 18506_at 18605_s_at 18626_at 18666_s_at18747_f_at 18782_at 18834_at 18847_at 18913_s_at 18973_at 18988_at19065_at 19068_i_at 19123_at 19177_at 19220_at 19288_at 19315_at19437_s_at 19484_s_at 19502_at 19503_at 19592_at 19645_at 19742_at19835_at 19873_at 19891_at 20004_s_at 20053_at 20133_i_at 20138_at20190_at 20199_at 20200_at 20220_at 20362_at 20385_s_at 20389_at20489_at 20546_at 20623_at 20648_s_at 20678_at 20707_s_at

TABLE 10 2X DOWN SALT, ONLY 12011_s_at 12180_at 12265_at 12335_at12479_at 12562_at 12656_at 12813_at 13003_s_at 13052_s_at 13094_at13178_at 13253_f_at 13387_at 13429_at 13472_at 13569_at 13686_s_at13718_at 13719_at 13902_at 14003_at 14144_at 14267_at 14418_at 14544_at14546_s_at 14636_s_at 14951_at 14956_s_at 14979_at 14990_at 15040_g_at15049_at 15115_f_at 15137_s_at 15148_s_at 15176_s_at 15208_s_at 15371_at15453_s_at 15463_at 15465_at 15589_s_at 15663_s_at 15860_at 15898_at15931_at 15965_at 15970_s_at 15972_s_at 16005_s_at 16028_at 16046_s_at16060_s_at 16088_f_at 16150_s_at 16166_s_at 16316_at 16340_at 16367_i_at16426_at 16427_at 16436_at 16489_at 16502_at 16568_s_at 16638_s_at16646_s_at 17273_at 17278_at 17567_at 17868_at 17880_s_at 17894_at17901_at 17942_s_at 17960_at 17999_at 18062_at 18240_s_at 18248_s_at18267_at 18279_s_at 18287_at 18310_at 18351_s_at 18455_at 18560_at18571_at 18618_s_at 18896_at 18899_s_at 18967_s_at 18983_s_at 19119_i_at19121_at 19207_at 19348_at 19403_s_at 19609_at 19742_at 19826_at19863_at 19883_at 20193_at 20239_g_at 20433_at 20629_at 20668_at

TABLE 11 OSMOTIC STRESS RESPONSIVE SEQUENCES SEQ AFFYMETRIX ID NO: IDNO: 2428 11994_AT 2429 12028_AT 2430 12033_AT 2431 12039_AT 243212068_AT 2433 12096_AT 2434 12110_AT 2435 12114_AT 2436 12135_AT 243712139_AT 2438 12189_AT 2439 12191_AT 2440 12211_AT 2441 12223_S_AT 244212366_S_AT 12869_S_AT 2443 12381_AT 2444 12406_S_AT 2445 12412_AT 244612453_AT 2447 12571_S_AT 2448 12662_AT 2449 12746_I_AT 2450 12774_AT2451 12787_AT 2452 12847_AT 2453 12848_AT 2454 12895_AT 2455 12911_S_AT2456 12920_AT 12921_S_AT 2457 13027_AT 2458 13059_AT 2459 13075_I_AT2460 13180_S_AT 2461 13255_I_AT 2462 13270_AT 18167_S_AT 2463 13283_S_AT2464 13382_AT 2465 13386_S_AT 2466 13433_AT 2467 13482_AT 2468 13732_AT2469 13733_I_AT 2470 13842_AT 2471 13860_S_AT 2472 13868_AT 247313901_AT 2474 13933_AT 2475 13995_AT 2476 14062_AT 2477 14118_I_AT 247814141_AT 2479 14310_AT 2480 14354_AT 2481 14476_AT 2482 14513_S_AT 248314568_S_AT 2484 14604_AT 2485 14634_S_AT 2486 14660_S_AT 2487 14666_S_AT2488 14686_S_AT 17464_AT 2489 14726_S_AT 2490 14848_S_AT 2491 14873_AT2492 14883_AT 2493 15082_AT 2494 15121_S_AT 16014_S_AT 2495 15168_S_AT2496 15271_AT 2497 15338_AT 2498 15418_AT 2499 15429_AT 2500 15548_AT2501 15666_S_AT 2502 15672_S_AT 2503 15680_S_AT 2504 15867_AT 250515918_AT 2506 15999_S_AT 2507 16303_AT 2508 16363_AT 2509 16440_S_AT2510 16458_S_AT 2511 16475_AT 2512 16513_S_AT 2513 16529_AT 251416547_S_AT 2515 16553_F_AT 2516 16563_S_AT 2517 16629_S_AT 2518 16797_AT2519 16814_AT 2520 16832_AT 2521 16976_S_AT 2522 17007_AT 252317037_S_AT 2524 17054_S_AT 2525 17257_S_AT 18725_S_AT 2526 17270_AT 252717275_I_AT 2528 17376_AT 2529 17378_AT 2530 17468_AT 2531 17481_AT 253217511_S_AT 2533 17519_S_AT 2534 17815_S_AT 2535 17897_AT 2536 17923_S_AT2537 17934_AT 2538 17937_S_AT 2539 17944_AT 2540 17958_AT 2541 18216_AT2542 18227_AT 2543 18284_AT 2544 18301_S_AT 2545 18312_S_AT 254618326_S_AT 2547 18369_AT 2548 18411_AT 2549 18533_AT 2550 18576_S_AT2551 18599_AT 2552 18640_AT 2553 18672_S_AT 2554 18720_S_AT 255518768_AT 2556 18877_AT 2557 18942_AT 2558 18945_AT 2559 18960_AT 256018965_AT 2561 19060_AT 2562 19164_G_AT 2563 19266_AT 2564 19366_S_AT2565 19369_AT 2566 19371_AT 2567 19386_AT 2568 19412_AT 2569 19427_S_AT2570 19622_G_AT 2571 19681_AT 2572 19819_S_AT 2573 19961_S_AT 257420002_AT 2575 20034_I_AT 2576 20062_AT 2577 20136_AT 2578 20223_AT 257920235_I_AT 2580 20401_AT 2581 20407_AT 2582 20470_AT 2583 20626_AT 258420631_S_AT 2585 20647_AT

TABLE 12 2X UP IN MANNITOL, ONLY 12039_at 12068_at 12139_at 12212_at12278_at 12366_s_at 12453_at 12556_at 12575_s_at 12746_i_at 12848_at12869_s_at 12920_at 12921_s_at 13041_s_at 13059_at 13241_s_at 13255_i_at13270_at 13382_at 13406_at 13433_at 13550_at 13672_s_at 13716_at13842_at 13933_at 13995_at 14062_at 14075_at 14162_at 14208_at 14217_at14235_at 14310_at 14431_at 14513_s_at 14584_at 14604_at 14673_s_at14856_s_at 15207_s_at 15338_at 15406_at 15418_at 15591_s_at 15666_s_at15680_s_at 15866_s_at 15918_at 16340_at 16553_f_at 16797_at 16832_at16993_at 17037_s_at 17054_s_at 17083_s_at 17097_s_at 17119_s_at 17270_at17305_at 17376_at 17378_at 17449_s_at 17481_at 17533_s_at 17832_s_at17923_s_at 17944_at 18059_i_at 18216_at 18230_at 18255_at 18284_at18301_s_at 18312_s_at 18326_s_at 18599_at 18672_s_at 18720_s_at 18768_at18814_at 18877_at 18921_g_at 18960_at 19060_at 19182_at 19192_at19266_at 19369_at 19386_at 19402_at 19412_at 19432_s_at 19469_at19622_g_at 19819_s_at 19826_at 20152_at 20223_at 20235_i_at 20365_s_at20470_at 20537_at 20547_at

TABLE 13 2X UP IN MANNITOL, 3 HR ONLY 12039_at 12068_at 12139_at12212_at 12278_at 12366_s_at 12453_at 12556_at 12575_s_at 12746_i_at12848_at 12869_s_at 12920_at 12921_s_at 13041_s_at 13059_at 13241_s_at13382_at 13406_at 13433_at 13550_at 13672_s_at 13933_at 13995_at14062_at 14075_at 14162_at 14217_at 14310_at 14431_at 14513_s_at14584_at 14604_at 14673_s_at 14856_s_at 15207_s_at 15338_at 15418_at15591_s_at 15866_s_at 15918_at 16340_at 16553_f_at 16797_at 16832_at17037_s_at 17054_s_at 17083_s_at 17097_s_at 17270_at 17305_at 17376_at17378_at 17449_s_at 17481_at 17533_s_at 17923_s_at 17944_at 18059_i_at18216_at 18230_at 18255_at 18301_s_at 18312_s_at 18326_s_at 18599_at18720_s_at 18768_at 18814_at 18877_at 18921_g_at 18960_at 19060_at19192_at 19266_at 19369_at 19386_at 19402_at 19412_at 19432_s_at19469_at 19622_g_at 19819_s_at 20152_at 20223_at 20235_i_at 20365_s_at20470_at 20537_at

TABLE 14 2X DOWN IN MANNITOL, ONLY 12028_at 12033_at 12110_at 12114_at12189_at 12191_at 12211_at 12223_s_at 12268_at 12345_at 12381_at12406_s_at 12412_at 12522_at 12571_s_at 12662_at 12787_at 12847_at12895_at 12911_s_at 13027_at 13075_i_at 13221_at 13262_s_at 13283_s_at13386_s_at 13447_s_at 13482_at 13634_s_at 13709_s_at 13732_at 13733_i_at13812_s_at 13825_s_at 13860_s_at 13868_at 13901_at 14052_at 14224_at14244_s_at 14254_s_at 14256_f_at 14354_at 14476_at 14568_s_at 14634_s_at14646_s_at 14660_s_at 14686_s_at 14726_s_at 14848_s_at 14873_at 14883_at14897_at 14918_at 15082_at 15084_at 15098_s_at 15105_s_at 15121_s_at15126_s_at 15168_s_at 15271_at 15429_at 15548_at 15672_s_at 15753_at15867_at 15999_s_at 16001_at 16021_s_at 16190_at 16260_at 16303_at16363_at 16458_s_at 16468_at 16475_at 16513_s_at 16529_at 16563_s_at16690_g_at 16814_at 16847_at 16927_s_at 16976_s_at 17007_at 17014_s_at17016_s_at 17071_s_at 17090_s_at 17257_s_at 17275_i_at 17424_at 17464_at17468_at 17511_s_at 17519_s_at 17525_s_at 17645_s_at 17741_at 17815_s_at17897_at 17899_at 17934_at 17937_s_at 17958_at 18012_s_at 18227_at18272_at 18331_s_at 18369_at 18411_at 18533_at 18576_s_at 18640_at18696_s_at 18945_at 18949_at 18953_at 18965_at 19164_g_at 19322_at19366_s_at 19371_at 19397_at 19427_s_at 19681_at 19707_s_at 19839_at19961_s_at 19976_at 19998_at 20002_at 20034_i_at 20136_at 20382_s_at20407_at 20529_at 20626_at 20631_s_at 20647_at 20699_at

TABLE 15 COLD & OSOMOTIC STRESS RESPONSIVE SEQUENCES SEQ AFFYMETRIX IDNO: ID NO: 1699 12040_AT 1700 12048_AT 1701 12054_S_AT 1702 12077_AT1703 12107_I_AT 1704 12113_AT 1705 12154_AT 1706 12171_AT 1707 12212_AT1708 12278_AT 1709 12317_AT 1710 12325_AT 1711 12333_AT 1712 12345_AT1713 12349_S_AT 14254_S_AT 14256_F_AT 1714 12356_AT 1715 12380_AT 171612392_AT 1717 12460_S_AT 1718 12556_AT 1719 12575_S_AT 1720 12686_S_AT1721 12701_I_AT 1722 12754_G_AT 1723 12782_R_AT 1724 12784_AT 172512879_S_AT 1726 12891_AT 16817_S_AT 1727 12898_G_AT 1728 12974_AT 172912998_AT 1730 13041_S_AT 1731 13124_AT 1732 13134_S_AT 1733 13144_AT1734 13147_AT 1735 13152_S_AT 1736 13187_I_AT 16981_S_AT 1737 13192_S_AT17525_S_AT 1738 13212_S_AT 1739 13215_S_AT 16649_S_AT 1740 13241_S_AT1741 13246_AT 1742 13262_S_AT 1743 13286_S_AT 1744 13324_AT 174513340_S_AT 1746 13361_AT 1747 13406_AT 1748 13441_S_AT 1749 13513_AT1750 13550_AT 1751 13573_AT 1752 13577_S_AT 1753 13606_AT 1754 13609_AT1755 13625_S_AT 1756 13626_AT 1757 13634_S_AT 1758 13672_S_AT 18916_S_AT1759 13709_S_AT 1760 13736_AT 1761 13775_AT 1762 13810_AT 176313812_S_AT 1764 13825_S_AT 1765 14015_S_AT 14016_S_AT 1766 14029_AT 176714036_AT 1768 14051_AT 1769 14060_AT 1770 14064_AT 1771 14066_AT 177214075_AT 1773 14094_S_AT 19999_S_AT 1774 14096_AT 1775 14104_AT 177614123_S_AT 1777 14126_S_AT 1778 14131_AT 1779 14136_AT 1780 14139_AT14140_AT 1781 14162_AT 14217_AT 1782 14178_AT 1783 14201_AT 178414208_AT 1785 14235_AT 1786 14242_S_AT 1787 14431_AT 1788 14480_AT 178914497_AT 1790 14553_AT 1791 14584_AT 1792 14600_AT 1793 14673_S_AT19432_S_AT 1794 14681_G_AT 1795 14699_AT 1796 14751_AT 1797 14762_AT1798 14828_S_AT 1799 14856_S_AT 1800 14882_AT 1801 14897_AT 180214978_AT 1803 14985_S_AT 1804 15031_AT 1805 15084_AT 1806 15096_AT 180715105_S_AT 1808 15110_S_AT 1809 15111_S_AT 1810 15120_S_AT 181115126_S_AT 1812 15142_S_AT 1813 15144_S_AT 1814 15184_S_AT 181515198_S_AT 1816 15203_S_AT 1817 15207_S_AT 1818 15240_AT 1819 15366_AT1820 15398_AT 1821 15406_AT 1822 15448_AT 1823 15466_AT 1824 15481_AT1825 15484_AT 1826 15549_AT 1827 15591_S_AT 1828 15606_S_AT 182915614_S_AT 16927_S_AT 1830 15629_S_AT 1831 15633_S_AT 1832 15641_S_AT18012_S_AT 1833 15720_AT 1834 15815_S_AT 1835 15817_AT 1836 15837_AT1837 15841_AT 1838 15866_S_AT 18255_AT 1839 15872_AT 18331_S_AT 184015892_AT 1841 15933_AT 1842 15947_AT 1843 15959_S_AT 1844 16001_AT 184516052_AT 1846 16161_S_AT 1847 16204_AT 1848 16232_S_AT 1849 16252_AT1850 16260_AT 1851 16266_AT 1852 16299_AT 1853 16365_AT 1854 16468_AT1855 16477_AT 1856 16491_AT 1857 16523_S_AT 1858 16566_S_AT 185916570_S_AT 1860 16688_AT 1861 16840_AT 1862 16847_AT 1863 16893_AT 186416896_S_AT 1865 16898_S_AT 1866 16912_S_AT 1867 16980_AT 1868 16993_AT1869 17008_AT 1870 17012_S_AT 1871 17014_S_AT 1872 17016_S_AT 187317032_S_AT 1874 17050_S_AT 17051_S_AT 1875 17071_S_AT 1876 17090_S_AT18690_S_AT 1877 17097_S_AT 1878 17104_S_AT 1879 17119_S_AT 1880 17160_AT1881 17305_AT 1882 17424_AT 1883 17449_S_AT 1884 17452_G_AT 188517540_S_AT 1886 17552_S_AT 1887 17571_AT 1888 17589_AT 1889 17641_G_AT1890 17741_AT 18098_AT 1891 17766_AT 1892 17873_S_AT 1893 17904_AT 189417920_S_AT 1895 17925_AT 1896 17943_AT 1897 18059_I_AT 1898 18230_AT1899 18263_AT 1900 18272_AT 1901 18540_AT 1902 18608_AT 1903 18647_AT1904 18662_S_AT 1905 18664_AT 1906 18695_S_AT 1907 18704_AT 190818814_AT 1909 18907_S_AT 1910 18921_G_AT 1911 18924_AT 1912 18949_AT19707_S_AT 1913 18995_AT 1914 19017_AT 1915 19034_AT 1916 19063_AT 191719142_AT 1918 19158_AT 1919 19180_AT 1920 19187_AT 1921 19192_AT 192219195_AT 1923 19199_AT 1924 19231_AT 1925 19263_AT 1926 19308_AT 192719322_AT 1928 19365_S_AT 1929 19372_AT 1930 19389_AT 1931 19392_AT 193219397_AT 1933 19400_AT 1934 19402_AT 1935 19458_AT 1936 19469_AT 193719473_AT 1938 19597_S_AT 1939 19710_S_AT 1940 19830_AT 1941 19839_AT1942 19840_S_AT 1943 19853_AT 1944 19860_AT 1945 19880_AT 1946 19889_AT1947 19898_AT 1948 19914_AT 1949 19924_AT 1950 19949_AT 1951 19976_AT1952 19998_AT 1953 20030_AT 1954 20151_AT 1955 20152_AT 1956 20187_AT1957 20214_I_AT 1958 20269_AT 1959 20271_AT 1960 20273_AT 1961 20299_AT1962 20323_AT 1963 20429_S_AT 1964 20457_AT 1965 20480_S_AT 196620529_AT 1967 20547_AT 1968 20555_S_AT 1969 20699_AT

TABLE 16 2X UP IN MANNITOL & COLD, ONLY 12345_at 12784_at 13153_r_at13212_s_at 13215_s_at 13246_at 13262_s_at 13361_at 13625_s_at 13764_at13810_at 14015_s_at 14016_s_at 14060_at 14096_at 14123_s_at 14139_at14219_at 14248_at 14254_s_at 14256_f_at 14609_at 14636_s_at 14681_g_at14699_at 14704_s_at 14828_s_at 14882_at 15110_s_at 15184_s_at 15448_at15629_s_at 15720_at 15846_at 15947_at 16161_s_at 16365_at 16427_at16566_s_at 16570_s_at 16649_s_at 16688_at 16712_at 16817_s_at 16840_at16893_at 16912_s_at 16916_s_at 16927_s_at 16981_s_at 17012_s_at17014_s_at 17051_s_at 17066_s_at 17540_s_at 17567_at 17766_at 17904_at17920_s_at 17943_at 18263_at 18351_s_at 18662_s_at 18670_g_at 18695_s_at18704_at 18729_at 18995_at 19158_at 19473_at 19710_s_at 19883_at19889_at 20030_at 20269_at 20271_at 20299_at 20429_s_at 20438_at20480_s_at

TABLE 17 2X DOWN COLD & MANNITOL, ONLY 12040_at 12048_at 12054_s_at12077_at 12107_i_at 12113_at 12154_at 12171_at 12317_at 12325_at12333_at 12356_at 12380_at 12392_at 12460_s_at 12686_s_at 12701_i_at12782_r_at 12879_s_at 12898_g_at 12974_at 12998_at 13144_at 13147_at13152_s_at 13192_s_at 13286_s_at 13324_at 13340_s_at 13441_s_at 13513_at13573_at 13606_at 13609_at 13626_at 13736_at 13775_at 14029_at 14036_at14051_at 14064_at 14066_at 14094_s_at 14104_at 14126_s_at 14131_at14136_at 14178_at 14192_at 14201_at 14242_s_at 14480_at 14497_at14553_at 14612_at 14751_at 14762_at 14978_at 14985_s_at 15031_at15096_at 15111_s_at 15120_s_at 15142_s_at 15198_s_at 15203_s_at 15240_at15366_at 15392_at 15398_at 15466_at 15481_at 15484_at 15549_at15623_f_at 15815_s_at 15817_at 15841_at 15892_at 15933_at 15959_s_at16052_at 16204_at 16252_at 16266_at 16299_at 16477_at 16491_at16561_s_at 16645_s_at 16898_s_at 16980_at 17008_at 17104_s_at 17160_at17317_at 17400_s_at 17452_g_at 17477_s_at 17500_s_at 17552_s_at 17571_at17572_s_at 17589_at 17641_g_at 17855_at 17873_s_at 17925_at 18098_at18540_at 18608_at 18647_at 18664_at 18690_s_at 18725_s_at 18924_at19017_at 19034_at 19063_at 19141_at 19142_at 19180_at 19187_at 19195_at19199_at 19231_at 19308_at 19372_at 19392_at 19400_at 19458_at19597_s_at 19762_at 19830_at 19853_at 19869_at 19880_at 19898_at19914_at 19924_at 19949_at 20151_at 20187_at 20214_i_at 20273_at20323_at 20457_at 20555_s_at

TABLE 18 COLD & SALINE STRESS RESPONSIVE SEQUENCES SEQ AFFYMETRIX ID NO:ID NO: 1970 12021_AT 1971 12037_AT 1972 12094_AT 1973 12098_AT 197412128_AT 1975 12148_AT 1976 12151_AT 1977 12357_S_AT 1978 12394_AT 197912472_S_AT 1980 12475_AT 1981 12482_S_AT 1982 12490_AT 1983 12505_S_AT1984 12531_AT 1985 12540_S_AT 1986 12541_AT 1987 12577_AT 1988 12594_AT1989 12629_AT 1990 12642_AT 1991 12656_AT 1992 12660_AT 1993 12712_F_AT1994 12725_R_AT 1995 12745_AT 1996 12777_I_AT 1997 12790_S_AT 199812798_AT 1999 12801_AT 2000 12855_F_AT 2001 12887_S_AT 2002 12933_R_AT2003 12951_AT 2004 13005_AT 2005 13015_S_AT 2006 13115_AT 2007 13178_AT2008 13228_AT 2009 13236_S_AT 16646_S_AT 2010 13266_S_AT 15211_S_AT 201113275_F_AT 2012 13335_AT 2013 13362_S_AT 2014 13428_AT 2015 13464_AT2016 13480_AT 2017 13538_AT 2018 13544_AT 2019 13549_AT 2020 13565_AT2021 13580_AT 2022 13588_AT 2023 13649_AT 2024 13652_AT 2025 13679_S_AT2026 13696_AT 2027 13702_S_AT 2028 13751_AT 2029 13919_AT 2030 13943_AT2031 13950_S_AT 2032 14050_AT 2033 14055_S_AT 16166_S_AT 2034 14067_AT2035 14078_AT 2036 14110_I_AT 2037 14144_AT 2038 14232_AT 2039 14285_AT2040 14346_AT 2041 14432_AT 2042 14468_AT 2043 14479_AT 2044 14524_S_AT2045 14608_AT 2046 14621_AT 2047 14635_S_AT 17128_S_AT 2048 14640_S_AT2049 14643_S_AT 2050 14663_S_AT 2051 14668_S_AT 2052 14688_S_AT18279_S_AT 2053 14737_S_AT 2054 14768_AT 2055 14875_AT 2056 14911_S_AT17056_S_AT 2057 14924_AT 2058 14956_S_AT 15148_S_AT 18673_AT 205914964_AT 2060 15022_AT 2061 15040_G_AT 2062 15047_AT 2063 15063_AT 206415085_S_AT 2065 15123_S_AT 2066 15133_S_AT 2067 15137_S_AT 206815153_S_AT 2069 15170_S_AT 2070 15172_S_AT 2071 15182_S_AT 207215190_S_AT 2073 15241_S_AT 2074 15389_AT 2075 15453_S_AT 2076 15495_AT2077 15496_AT 2078 15519_S_AT 2079 15562_AT 2080 15580_S_AT 208115582_S_AT 2082 15638_S_AT 18751_F_AT 2083 15646_S_AT 2084 15647_S_AT2085 15654_S_AT 2086 15655_S_AT 2087 15658_S_AT 2088 15670_S_AT 208915775_AT 2090 15798_AT 2091 15930_AT 2092 15931_AT 2093 15949_S_AT 209416017_AT 2095 16053_I_AT 2096 16078_S_AT 2097 16086_S_AT 2098 16120_S_AT2099 16126_S_AT 2100 16150_S_AT 2101 16159_S_AT 2102 16230_AT 210316306_AT 2104 16367_I_AT 2105 16417_S_AT 18083_R_AT 2106 16418_S_AT 210716423_AT 2108 16449_S_AT 2109 16484_S_AT 2110 16489_AT 2111 16565_S_AT2112 16596_S_AT 2113 16600_S_AT 2114 16603_S_AT 2115 16638_S_AT 211616642_S_AT 2117 16763_AT 2118 16914_S_AT 2119 16968_AT 2120 16983_AT2121 16989_AT 2122 17002_AT 2123 17015_S_AT 2124 17040_S_AT 18913_S_AT2125 17232_AT 2126 17380_AT 2127 17394_S_AT 20640_S_AT 2128 17398_AT2129 17448_AT 2130 17485_S_AT 2131 17490_S_AT 2132 17499_S_AT 213317505_S_AT 2134 17516_S_AT 2135 17529_S_AT 2136 17543_S_AT 213717593_R_AT 19858_S_AT 2138 17609_AT 2139 17698_AT 2140 17836_AT 214117886_AT 2142 17896_AT 2143 17901_AT 2144 17902_S_AT 2145 17913_S_AT2146 17924_AT 2147 17954_S_AT 2148 17960_AT 2149 17991_G_AT 18967_S_AT2150 17999_AT 2151 18057_I_AT 2152 18078_AT 2153 18091_AT 215418168_S_AT 2155 18252_AT 2156 18267_AT 2157 18300_AT 2158 18308_I_AT2159 18328_AT 2160 18354_AT 2161 18402_AT 2162 18416_AT 2163 18455_AT2164 18459_AT 2165 18571_AT 2166 18604_AT 19181_S_AT 2167 18644_AT 216818745_F_AT 19611_S_AT 2169 18782_AT 2170 18881_AT 2171 18904_S_AT 217218914_S_AT 2173 18963_AT 2174 19068_I_AT 2175 19078_AT 2176 19171_AT2177 19177_AT 2178 19394_AT 2179 19411_AT 2180 19415_AT 2181 19466_S_AT2182 19484_S_AT 2183 19549_S_AT 2184 19592_AT 2185 19633_AT 218619641_AT 2187 19669_AT 2188 19672_AT 2189 19684_AT 2190 19692_AT 219119746_AT 2192 19835_AT 2193 19848_S_AT 2194 19892_AT 2195 19904_AT 219619936_AT 2197 19974_S_AT 2198 19994_AT 2199 20005_S_AT 2200 20022_AT2201 20032_AT 2202 20044_AT 2203 20049_AT 2204 20081_AT 2205 20133_I_AT2206 20155_S_AT 2207 20163_S_AT 2208 20200_AT 2209 20296_S_AT 221020336_AT 2211 20341_AT 2212 20372_AT 2213 20385_S_AT 2214 20433_AT 221520489_AT 2216 20525_AT 2217 20543_AT 2218 20565_AT 2219 20570_AT 222020576_AT 2221 20577_AT 2222 20609_AT 2223 20646_AT 2224 20672_AT 222520707_S_AT 2226 20720_AT

TABLE 19 2X UP IN SALT & COLD, ONLY 12004_at 12098_at 12148_at 12251_at12357_s_at 12394_at 12457_at 12505_s_at 12522_at 12541_at 12594_at12606_at 12697_at 12745_at 12781_at 12798_at 12855_f_at 12945_at12951_at 13005_at 13015_s_at 13115_at 13146_s_at 13335_at 13447_s_at13480_at 13544_at 13549_at 13580_at 13649_at 13943_at 13950_s_at14110_i_at 14144_at 14224_at 14432_at 14468_at 14479_at 14524_s_at14640_s_at 14643_s_at 14735_s_at 14737_s_at 14768_at 14784_at 14924_at15064_at 15127_s_at 15186_s_at 15189_s_at 15255_at 15389_at 15482_at15495_at 15496_at 15519_s_at 15580_s_at 15582_s_at 15776_at 15798_at15910_at 15931_at 15937_at 15949_s_at 15972_s_at 16048_at 16086_s_at16120_s_at 16126_s_at 16150_s_at 16159_s_at 16230_at 16306_at 16418_s_at16423_at 16449_s_at 16565_s_at 16603_s_at 16763_at 16968_at 16983_at17002_at 17015_s_at 17019_s_at 17078_s_at 17232_at 17317_at 17394_s_at17516_s_at 17585_s_at 17609_at 17698_at 17836_at 17896_at 17899_at17902_s_at 17960_at 17963_at 18168_s_at 18252_at 18267_at 18308_i_at18354_at 18402_at 18459_at 18484_at 18745_f_at 18904_s_at 18914_s_at18929_s_at 18946_at 18963_at 19078_at 19137_at 19141_at 19411_at19641_at 19672_at 19684_at 19692_at 19746_at 19762_at 19869_at 19894_at19904_at 19936_at 19994_at 20005_s_at 20031_at 20044_at 20382_s_at20406_g_at 20421_at 20525_at 20543_at 20565_at 20570_at 20640_s_at20646_at 20720_at

TABLE 20 2X DOWN IN COLD & SALT, ONLY 12021_at 12094_at 12128_at12151_at 12332_s_at 12472_s_at 12475_at 12482_s_at 12490_at 12531_at12540_s_at 12577_at 12629_at 12642_at 12660_at 12676_s_at 12712_f_at12725_r_at 12777_i_at 12790_s_at 12801_at 12887_s_at 12933_r_at13153_r_at 13228_at 13362_s_at 13428_at 13538_at 13565_at 13588_at13696_at 13702_s_at 13716_at 13764_at 14050_at 14055_s_at 14069_at14078_at 14232_at 14346_at 14608_at 14609_at 14621_at 14635_s_at14663_s_at 14688_s_at 14691_at 14704_s_at 14875_at 14911_s_at 14964_at15022_at 15085_s_at 15123_s_at 15153_s_at 15172_s_at 15190_s_at15211_s_at 15241_s_at 15437_at 15562_at 15638_s_at 15647_s_at 15654_s_at15655_s_at 15658_s_at 15695_s_at 15846_at 15930_at 16053_i_at 16078_s_at16229_at 16465_at 16484_s_at 16596_s_at 16600_s_at 16642_s_at 16914_s_at17027_s_at 17066_s_at 17083_s_at 17128_s_at 17380_at 17398_at 17448_at17485_s_at 17490_s_at 17499_s_at 17505_s_at 17514_s_at 17593_r_at17886_at 17913_s_at 17924_at 17954_s_at 17991_g_at 18057_i_at 18069_at18328_at 18416_at 18604_at 18644_at 18881_at 19171_at 19181_s_at19182_at 19394_at 19415_at 19466_s_at 19549_s_at 19592_at 19633_at19669_at 19848_s_at 19858_s_at 19878_at 19892_at 19974_s_at 20022_at20032_at 20049_at 20081_at 20155_s_at 20163_s_at 20296_s_at 20336_at20341_at 20365_s_at 20372_at 20489_at 20491_at 20576_at 20577_at20609_at 20672_at

TABLE 21 OSMOTIC & SALINE STRESS RESPONSIVE SEQUENCES SEQ AFFYMETRIX IDNO: ID NO: 2586 12126_S_AT 2587 12137_AT 2588 12227_AT 2589 12239_AT2590 12268_AT 2591 12369_AT 2592 12476_AT 2593 12484_G_AT 2594 12494_AT2595 12644_AT 2596 12645_AT 2597 12796_S_AT 2598 12819_AT 2599 12841_AT2600 12852_S_AT 19455_S_AT 2601 13084_AT 2602 13171_AT 2603 13174_R_AT2604 13596_AT 2605 13807_AT 2606 13977_AT 2607 13999_AT 2608 14052_AT2609 14293_AT 2610 14335_AT 2611 14486_AT 2612 14506_AT 2613 14518_AT2614 14540_AT 2615 14578_S_AT 2616 14646_S_AT 2617 14662_F_AT 15962_S_AT2618 14901_AT 2619 14918_AT 2620 14986_AT 2621 15053_S_AT 262215179_S_AT 2623 15252_G_AT 2624 15280_AT 2625 15467_AT 2626 15607_S_AT2627 15625_S_AT 2628 15703_I_AT 2629 15827_AT 2630 15863_AT 263115923_AT 2632 15946_S_AT 2633 16005_S_AT 2634 16073_F_AT 2635 16114_S_AT2636 16127_S_AT 18744_F_AT 2637 16190_AT 2638 16196_AT 2639 16236_G_AT19531_AT 2640 16310_AT 2641 16316_AT 2642 16334_S_AT 2643 16335_AT 264416340_AT 2645 16450_S_AT 2646 16500_AT 2647 16524_AT 2648 16533_AT 264916690_G_AT 2650 16762_AT 2651 16819_AT 2652 16873_I_AT 2653 16972_AT2654 16991_AT 2655 17099_S_AT 2656 17339_AT 2657 17397_S_AT 265817419_AT 2659 17460_AT 2660 17554_S_AT 2661 17939_AT 2662 18013_R_AT18178_S_AT 2663 18024_S_AT 2664 18032_I_AT 2665 18054_AT 2666 18151_AT2667 18281_AT 2668 18445_AT 2669 18520_AT 2670 18583_AT 2671 18663_S_AT2672 18753_S_AT 2673 18876_AT 2674 18938_G_AT 2675 18971_AT 267618977_AT 2677 18981_AT 2678 19099_AT 2679 19196_AT 2680 19376_AT 268119409_AT 2682 19503_AT 2683 19826_AT 2684 19847_S_AT 2685 19930_AT 268619992_AT 2687 20096_AT 2688 20108_AT 2689 20256_S_AT 2690 20290_S_AT2691 20298_AT 2692 20305_AT 2693 20322_AT 2694 20333_AT 2695 20402_S_AT2696 20424_AT 2697 20446_S_AT 2698 20450_AT 2699 20468_AT 270020569_S_AT 2701 20639_AT 2702 20678_AT 2703 20686_AT

TABLE 22 2X UP IN SALT & MANNITOL, ONLY 12126_s_at 12227_at 12369_at12521_at 12644_at 12645_at 12724_f_at 12795_at 12796_s_at 12841_at12852_s_at 12958_at 13014_at 13174_r_at 13211_s_at 13596_at 13640_at13789_at 13977_at 13999_at 14069_at 14083_at 14089_at 14293_at14675_s_at 15053_s_at 15058_s_at 15252_g_at 15280_at 15437_at 15607_s_at15625_s_at 15827_at 15863_at 15880_at 16005_s_at 16031_at 16073_f_at16316_at 16334_s_at 16335_at 16450_s_at 16500_at 16524_at 16533_at16597_s_at 16819_at 17085_s_at 17099_s_at 17339_at 17419_at 17442_i_at17514_s_at 17548_s_at 17554_s_at 17961_at 18032_i_at 18054_at 18151_at18167_s_at 18281_at 18520_at 18663_s_at 18744_f_at 18753_s_at 18789_at18876_at 18909_s_at 18938_g_at 18977_at 19099_at 19108_at 19135_at19227_at 19376_at 19429_at 19455_s_at 19531_at 19789_s_at 19878_at20017_at 20096_at 20256_s_at 20290_s_at 20305_at 20322_at 20333_at20420_at 20424_at 20689_s_at

TABLE 23 2X DOWN IN MANNITOL & SALT, ONLY 12239_at 12251_at 12476_at12484_g_at 12494_at 12561_at 12647_s_at 12719_f_at 12819_at 12841_at13084_at 13171_at 13172_s_at 13435_at 13807_at 14250_r_at 14335_at14486_at 14506_at 14518_at 14901_at 15046_s_at 15179_s_at 15451_at15703_i_at 15946_s_at 16014_s_at 16114_s_at 16310_at 16342_at 16712_at16762_at 16972_at 16991_at 17397_s_at 17408_at 17460_at 17775_at17939_at 18445_at 18583_at 18751_f_at 18971_at 18981_at 19156_s_at19196_at 19359_s_at 19409_at 19503_at 19713_at 19718_at 19847_s_at19930_at 20108_at 20298_at 20421_at 20432_at 20446_s_at 20639_at

TABLE 24 COLD, OSMOTIC & SALINE RESPONSIVE SEQUENCES SEQ AFFYMETRIX IDNO: ID NO: 1262 12004_AT 1263 12023_S_AT 1264 12078_AT 1265 12115_AT1266 12118_AT 1267 12150_AT 1268 12251_AT 1269 12271_S_AT 1270 12276_AT1271 12332_S_AT 13211_S_AT 1272 12338_AT 1273 12400_AT 1274 12430_AT1275 12457_AT 1276 12521_AT 1277 12522_AT 1278 12530_AT 1279 12536_S_AT1280 12538_AT 1281 12561_AT 1282 12574_AT 19019_I_AT 1283 12595_AT 128412606_AT 1285 12609_AT 1286 12622_AT 1287 12630_AT 1288 12647_S_AT 128912676_S_AT 1290 12697_AT 1291 12698_AT 1292 12719_F_AT 1293 12724_F_AT15871_S_AT 16597_S_AT 1294 12749_AT 1295 12765_AT 1296 12769_AT 129712781_AT 1298 12785_AT 1299 12792_S_AT 1300 12795_AT 1301 12805_S_AT1302 12857_AT 1303 12883_S_AT 1304 12909_S_AT 16539_S_AT 1305 12932_S_AT15605_S_AT 1306 12945_AT 1307 12958_AT 1308 12964_AT 1309 12968_AT 131012972_AT 1311 12989_S_AT 1312 13004_AT 1313 13014_AT 1314 13025_AT 131513036_AT 1316 13099_S_AT 1317 13136_AT 1318 13146_S_AT 13239_S_AT 131913153_R_AT 1320 13159_AT 1321 13176_AT 1322 13217_S_AT 17500_S_AT 132313225_S_AT 15997_S_AT 1324 13230_S_AT 15972_S_AT 1325 13279_S_AT17477_S_AT 1326 13280_S_AT 20301_S_AT 1327 13282_S_AT 17027_S_AT 132813426_AT 1329 13432_AT 1330 13435_AT 1331 13447_S_AT 1332 13474_AT 133313511_AT 1334 13546_AT 1335 13547_S_AT 1336 13548_AT 1337 13555_AT 133813587_AT 1339 13595_AT 1340 13610_S_AT 1341 13627_AT 1342 13640_AT 134313645_AT 1344 13647_AT 1345 13706_S_AT 19701_S_AT 1346 13716_AT 18228_AT1347 13725_AT 1348 13764_AT 1349 13771_AT 1350 13789_AT 1351 13916_AT1352 13965_S_AT 1353 13967_AT 1354 14028_AT 1355 14039_AT 1356 14046_AT1357 14049_AT 1358 14069_AT 1359 14077_AT 1360 14080_AT 1361 14083_AT1362 14089_AT 1363 14090_I_AT 1364 14097_AT 1365 14116_AT 1366 14151_AT14219_AT 1367 14170_AT 1368 14172_AT 1369 14192_AT 1370 14224_AT 137114227_AT 1372 14244_S_AT 14245_AT 14645_S_AT 15974_G_AT 1373 14248_AT1374 14250_R_AT 1375 14367_AT 1376 14381_AT 1377 14384_AT 137814398_S_AT 1379 14487_AT 1380 14582_AT 1381 14597_AT 1382 14609_AT 138314612_AT 19267_S_AT 1384 14614_AT 1385 14636_S_AT 1386 14644_S_AT14658_S_AT 14659_S_AT 15964_S_AT 1387 14675_S_AT 1388 14691_AT 14709_AT1389 14704_S_AT 15846_AT 1390 14705_I_AT 1391 14733_S_AT 1392 14735_S_AT1393 14779_AT 1394 14784_AT 1395 14923_AT 1396 14947_AT 1397 14950_AT1398 14990_AT 1399 14998_AT 1400 15005_S_AT 1401 15018_AT 1402 15045_AT1403 15046_S_AT 1404 15052_AT 1405 15058_S_AT 1406 15064_AT 140715088_S_AT 1408 15098_S_AT 1409 15103_S_AT 1410 15109_S_AT 141115124_S_AT 1412 15127_S_AT 1413 15145_S_AT 1414 15154_S_AT 141515161_S_AT 1416 15189_S_AT 1417 15214_S_AT 1418 15255_AT 1419 15356_AT1420 15357_AT 1421 15364_AT 1422 15392_AT 1423 15403_S_AT 1424 15437_AT1425 15451_AT 1426 15476_AT 1427 15482_AT 1428 15483_S_AT 142915521_S_AT 1430 15522_I_AT 1431 15531_I_AT 1432 15573_AT 1433 15581_S_AT1434 15586_S_AT 1435 15594_S_AT 1436 15609_S_AT 1437 15611_S_AT 143815621_F_AT 1439 15623_F_AT 1440 15669_S_AT 1441 15695_S_AT 144215702_S_AT 1443 15753_AT 1444 15761_AT 1445 15776_AT 1446 15778_AT 144715839_AT 1448 15842_AT 1449 15857_S_AT 1450 15859_AT 1451 15880_AT 145215886_AT 1453 15906_S_AT 1454 15910_AT 1455 15937_AT 1456 15957_AT 145715970_S_AT 1458 15985_AT 1459 16010_S_AT 16011_S_AT 17078_S_AT 146016021_S_AT 1461 16031_AT 1462 16038_S_AT 1463 16045_S_AT 1464 16046_S_AT1465 16048_AT 1466 16061_S_AT 1467 16082_S_AT 1468 16111_F_AT 146916115_S_AT 1470 16141_S_AT 1471 16144_S_AT 1472 16163_S_AT 147316173_S_AT 1474 16229_AT 1475 16298_AT 1476 16301_S_AT 1477 16322_AT1478 16342_AT 1479 16351_AT 1480 16412_S_AT 1481 16422_AT 1482 16427_AT1483 16438_AT 1484 16474_S_AT 1485 16482_S_AT 1486 16485_S_AT 18052_S_AT1487 16493_AT 1488 16534_S_AT 1489 16555_S_AT 1490 16561_S_AT 17572_S_AT1491 16592_S_AT 1492 16615_S_AT 1493 16637_S_AT 1494 16692_AT 149516712_AT 1496 16789_AT 1497 16818_S_AT 1498 16971_S_AT 1499 17018_S_AT1500 17019_S_AT 1501 17029_S_AT 1502 17041_S_AT 1503 17047_S_AT 150417066_S_AT 1505 17085_S_AT 1506 17089_S_AT 1507 17179_AT 1508 17180_AT1509 17228_AT 1510 17252_AT 1511 17317_AT 1512 17338_AT 1513 17384_AT1514 17387_S_AT 1515 17400_S_AT 1516 17407_S_AT 1517 17408_AT 151817413_S_AT 1519 17416_AT 1520 17425_S_AT 1521 17440_I_AT 1522 17442_I_AT1523 17473_AT 1524 17484_AT 1525 17514_S_AT 1526 17520_S_AT 152717533_S_AT 1528 17548_S_AT 19614_AT 1529 17549_S_AT 1530 17555_S_AT 153117567_AT 1532 17654_AT 1533 17693_AT 1534 17697_AT 1535 17722_AT 153617752_AT 1537 17755_AT 1538 17775_AT 1539 17832_S_AT 1540 17840_S_AT1541 17843_S_AT 1542 17855_AT 1543 17860_AT 1544 17869_AT 1545 17888_AT1546 17899_AT 1547 17929_S_AT 1548 17930_S_AT 1549 17932_S_AT 155017936_S_AT 18670_G_AT 1551 17957_AT 1552 17961_AT 1553 17962_AT 155417963_AT 1555 17971_S_AT 1556 17975_AT 18742_F_AT 1557 18016_R_AT 155818069_AT 1559 18122_AT 1560 18140_AT 1561 18199_AT 1562 18224_S_AT 156318225_AT 1564 18235_AT 1565 18259_S_AT 1566 18265_AT 1567 18270_AT 156818280_AT 1569 18289_AT 1570 18296_AT 1571 18298_AT 1572 18314_I_AT 157318318_AT 1574 18325_AT 1575 18351_S_AT 1576 18471_AT 1577 18482_S_AT1578 18484_AT 1579 18560_AT 1580 18564_AT 1581 18590_AT 1582 18594_AT1583 18595_AT 1584 18596_AT 1585 18629_S_AT 1586 18637_AT 1587 18661_AT1588 18668_AT 1589 18699_I_AT 1590 18747_F_AT 18789_AT 1591 18761_AT1592 18833_AT 1593 18875_S_AT 1594 18894_AT 1595 18936_AT 1596 18946_AT1597 18953_AT 1598 18955_AT 1599 18972_AT 1600 19008_S_AT 1601 19108_AT1602 19123_AT 1603 19135_AT 1604 19137_AT 1605 19141_AT 1606 19152_AT1607 19156_S_AT 1608 19182_AT 1609 19186_S_AT 1610 19214_AT 161119216_AT 1612 19227_AT 1613 19243_AT 1614 19288_AT 1615 19359_S_AT 161619368_AT 1617 19379_AT 1618 19380_S_AT 1619 19398_AT 1620 19421_AT 162119424_AT 1622 19429_AT 1623 19430_AT 1624 19450_AT 1625 19457_AT 162619467_AT 1627 19516_AT 1628 19545_AT 1629 19564_AT 1630 19577_AT 163119593_AT 1632 19602_AT 1633 19618_AT 1634 19638_AT 1635 19640_AT 163619646_S_AT 1637 19656_S_AT 1638 19670_AT 1639 19696_AT 1640 19713_AT1641 19718_AT 1642 19722_S_AT 1643 19749_AT 1644 19755_AT 1645 19762_AT1646 19789_S_AT 1647 19815_AT 1648 19843_AT 1649 19869_AT 1650 19878_AT1651 19883_AT 1652 19894_AT 1653 19926_AT 1654 19944_AT 1655 19968_AT1656 19977_AT 1657 19982_AT 1658 19987_AT 1659 19991_AT 1660 20015_AT1661 20017_AT 1662 20031_AT 1663 20040_AT 1664 20042_S_AT 1665 20060_AT20438_AT 1666 20089_AT 1667 20118_AT 1668 20144_AT 1669 20149_AT 167020179_AT 1671 20190_AT 1672 20194_AT 1673 20219_AT 1674 20245_S_AT 167520263_AT 1676 20308_S_AT 1677 20335_S_AT 1678 20338_AT 1679 20345_AT1680 20365_S_AT 1681 20382_S_AT 1682 20390_S_AT 1683 20395_AT 168420420_AT 1685 20421_AT 1686 20432_AT 1687 20437_AT 1688 20442_I_AT 168920463_S_AT 1690 20491_AT 1691 20537_AT 1692 20573_AT 1693 20636_AT 169420638_AT 1695 20641_AT 1696 20658_S_AT 1697 20689_S_AT 1698 20698_S_AT

TABLE 25 2X UP IN COLD, SALT & MANNITOL 12023_s_at 12332_s_at 12530_at12536_s_at 12574_at 12595_at 12698_at 12749_at 12765_at 12769_at12785_at 12857_at 12964_at 12972_at 12989_s_at 13004_at 13025_at13036_at 13099_s_at 13136_at 13176_at 13220_s_at 13225_s_at 13230_s_at13239_s_at 13426_at 13474_at 13548_at 13555_at 13595_at 13627_at13645_at 13647_at 13706_s_at 13965_s_at 13967_at 14080_at 14090_i_at14097_at 14116_at 14151_at 14172_at 14192_at 14244_s_at 14245_at14367_at 14398_s_at 14582_at 14614_at 14644_s_at 14645_s_at 14658_s_at14659_s_at 14733_s_at 14923_at 14990_at 15005_s_at 15018_at 15052_at15088_s_at 15098_s_at 15103_s_at 15145_s_at 15154_s_at 15161_s_at15214_s_at 15356_at 15521_s_at 15573_at 15586_s_at 15609_s_at 15611_s_at15621_f_at 15669_s_at 15695_s_at 15753_at 15761_at 15857_s_at 15871_s_at15964_s_at 15970_s_at 15974_g_at 15997_s_at 16011_s_at 16021_s_at16038_s_at 16046_s_at 16082_s_at 16111_f_at 16115_s_at 16127_s_at16141_s_at 16144_s_at 16163_s_at 16236_g_at 16301_s_at 16322_at 16422_at16474_s_at 16482_s_at 16485_s_at 16555_s_at 16561_s_at 16592_s_at16637_s_at 17041_s_at 17047_s_at 17179_at 17180_at 17252_at 17384_at17407_s_at 17484_at 17520_s_at 17555_s_at 17572_s_at 17722_at 17752_at17840_s_at 17843_s_at 17860_at 17929_s_at 17936_s_at 17962_at 18052_s_at18069_at 18122_at 18199_at 18259_s_at 18280_at 18289_at 18314_i_at18318_at 18325_at 18482_s_at 18590_at 18594_at 18595_at 18596_at18629_s_at 18661_at 18668_at 18699_i_at 18722_s_at 18936_at 18953_at18955_at 18972_at 19008_s_at 19152_at 19186_s_at 19214_at 19368_at19379_at 19380_s_at 19421_at 19545_at 19614_at 19638_at 19640_at19646_s_at 19656_s_at 19701_s_at 19843_at 19944_at 19982_at 19987_at19991_at 20042_s_at 20060_at 20118_at 20144_at 20149_at 20179_at20194_at 20245_s_at 20390_s_at 20437_at 20463_s_at 20491_at 20641_at20658_s_at

TABLE 26 2X DOWN IN COLD, MANNITOL & SALT, ONLY 12078_at 12115_at12118_at 12150_at 12271_s_at 12276_at 12338_at 12400_at 12430_at12538_at 12622_at 12630_at 12792_s_at 12805_s_at 12883_s_at 12909_s_at12932_s_at 12968_at 13159_at 13217_s_at 13279_s_at 13282_s_at 13432_at13511_at 13546_at 13547_s_at 13587_at 13610_s_at 13640_at 13725_at13771_at 13916_at 14028_at 14039_at 14046_at 14049_at 14077_at 14170_at14227_at 14248_at 14381_at 14384_at 14487_at 14597_at 14705_i_at14709_at 14779_at 14947_at 14950_at 14998_at 15045_at 15109_s_at15124_s_at 15189_s_at 15357_at 15364_at 15403_s_at 15476_at 15483_s_at15522_i_at 15531_i_at 15594_s_at 15702_s_at 15778_at 15839_at 15842_at15859_at 15872_at 15880_at 15886_at 15906_s_at 15957_at 15985_at16045_s_at 16061_s_at 16173_s_at 16298_at 16351_at 16412_s_at 16438_at16493_at 16534_s_at 16539_s_at 16615_s_at 16692_at 16789_at 16818_s_at16971_s_at 17018_s_at 17029_s_at 17089_s_at 17228_at 17338_at 17387_s_at17413_s_at 17416_at 17425_s_at 17440_i_at 17473_at 17533_s_at 17549_s_at17654_at 17693_at 17697_at 17755_at 17832_s_at 17869_at 17888_at17930_s_at 17932_s_at 17957_at 17963_at 17971_s_at 17975_at 18016_r_at18140_at 18224_s_at 18225_at 18228_at 18235_at 18265_at 18270_at18296_at 18298_at 18471_at 18564_at 18637_at 18742_f_at 18761_at18833_at 18875_s_at 18894_at 18946_at 19123_at 19216_at 19243_at19267_s_at 19288_at 19398_at 19424_at 19430_at 19450_at 19457_at19467_at 19516_at 19564_at 19577_at 19593_at 19602_at 19618_at 19670_at19696_at 19722_s_at 19749_at 19755_at 19815_at 19926_at 19968_at19977_at 20015_at 20040_at 20089_at 20190_at 20219_at 20263_at20301_s_at 20308_s_at 20338_at 20345_at 20395_at 20442_i_at 20537_at20573_at 20636_at 20638_at 20698_s_at

TABLE 27 2X ROOT SPECIFIC (COLD, SALINE & OSMOTIC STRESSES) 11997_at12004_at 12051_at 12072_at 12150_at 12151_at 12166_i_at 12219_at12315_at 12332_s_at 12374_i_at 12482_s_at 12515_at 12522_at 12538_at12571_s_at 12574_at 12609_at 12678_i_at 12698_at 12749_at 12760_g_at12765_at 12768_at 12769_at 12772_at 12777_i_at 12958_at 12989_s_at13015_s_at 13134_s_at 13146_s_at 13172_s_at 13178_at 13179_at 13187_i_at13211_s_at 13239_s_at 13273_s_at 13297_s_at 13549_at 13604_at 13629_s_at13706_s_at 13714_at 13751_at 13895_at 13933_at 13967_at 13985_s_at14028_at 14030_at 14058_at 14069_at 14072_at 14073_at 14097_at 14139_at14235_at 14250_r_at 14578_s_at 14582_at 14640_s_at 14643_s_at 14644_s_at14658_s_at 14659_s_at 14711_s_at 14900_at 14924_at 14990_at 15018_at15022_at 15107_s_at 15116_f_at 15120_s_at 15124_s_at 15131_s_at15132_s_at 15137_s_at 15184_s_at 15188_s_at 15208_s_at 15252_g_at15343_at 15389_at 15392_at 15448_at 15503_at 15531_i_at 15594_s_at15609_s_at 15623_f_at 15639_s_at 15670_s_at 15680_s_at 15859_at 15900_at15923_at 15962_s_at 15964_s_at 15965_at 15975_s_at 15985_at 16001_at16048_at 16052_at 16053_i_at 16105_s_at 16161_s_at 16165_s_at 16298_at16334_s_at 16422_at 16427_at 16440_s_at 16442_s_at 16468_at 16488_at16511_at 16529_at 16553_f_at 16568_s_at 16914_s_at 16965_s_at 16981_s_at16989_at 17033_s_at 17066_s_at 17085_s_at 17252_at 17376_at 17378_at17388_at 17415_at 17429_s_at 17463_at 17485_s_at 17490_s_at 17567_at17585_s_at 17595_s_at 17840_s_at 17860_at 17880_s_at 17894_at 17896_at17899_at 17911_at 17935_at 17961_at 18024_s_at 18122_at 18222_at18224_s_at 18252_at 18255_at 18269_s_at 18270_at 18327_s_at 18597_at18607_s_at 18636_at 18663_s_at 18782_at 18885_at 18888_at 18942_at18955_at 19060_at 19108_at 19135_at 19137_at 19195_at 19263_at 19376_at19406_at 19432_s_at 19835_at 19836_at 19840_s_at 19841_at 19843_at19926_at 19972_at 19977_at 19991_at 20034_i_at 20042_s_at 20189_at20194_at 20200_at 20214_i_at 20239_g_at 20262_at 20269_at 20294_at20312_s_at 20382_s_at 20396_at 20432_at 20444_at 20446_s_at 20480_s_at20586_i_at 20612_s_at 20672_at 20686_at 20689_s_at

TABLE 28 2X LEAF SPECIFIC (COLD, SALINE & OSMOTIC STRESSES) 12169_i_at12186_at 12187_at 12211_at 12212_at 12214_g_at 12270_at 12645_at12754_g_at 12774_at 12793_at 12796_s_at 12910_s_at 12916_s_at 12953_at13090_at 13124_at 13335_at 13550_at 13567_at 13568_at 13596_at 13614_at13678_s_at 13719_at 14014_at 14096_at 14118_i_at 14369_at 14478_at14513_s_at 14540_at 14596_at 14733_s_at 14986_at 15045_at 15097_s_at15098_s_at 15145_s_at 15153_s_at 15154_s_at 15182_s_at 15203_s_at15372_at 15521_s_at 15581_s_at 15621_f_at 15642_s_at 15776_at 15910_at16017_at 16046_s_at 16115_s_at 16136_s_at 16172_s_at 16316_at 16385_s_at16455_at 16485_s_at 16512_s_at 16547_s_at 16548_s_at 16629_s_at 16673_at16899_at 17010_s_at 17018_s_at 17054_s_at 17095_s_at 17097_s_at 17273_at17394_s_at 17420_at 17449_s_at 17600_s_at 17843_s_at 17913_s_at 17966_at18003_at 18081_at 18560_at 18588_at 18626_at 18644_at 18666_s_at18742_f_at 18977_at 18994_at 19227_at 19373_at 19834_at 19867_at19998_at 20062_at 20199_at 20256_s_at 20284_at 20437_at 20442_i_at20450_at 20468_at 20547_at 20635_s_at

TABLE 29 2X TRANSCRIPTION (COLD, SALINE & OSMOTIC STRESSES) 12068_at12166_i_at 12374_i_at 12392_at 12431_at 12450_s_at 12503_at 12536_s_at12540_s_at 12541_at 12587_at 12594_at 12595_at 12704_f_at 12705_f_at12709_f_at 12712_f_at 12719_f_at 12724_f_at 12725_r_at 12726_f_at12734_f_at 12736_f_at 12737_f_at 12812_at 12949_at 12951_at 12966_s_at13023_at 13034_s_at 13087_at 13270_at 13273_s_at 13432_at 13555_at13688_s_at 13714_at 13965_s_at 13987_s_at 14003_at 14144_at 14178_at14223_at 14235_at 14303_s_at 14393_at 14553_at 14781_at 15046_s_at15053_s_at 15214_s_at 15510_r_at 15638_s_at 15665_s_at 15679_s_at15720_at 15871_s_at 16072_s_at 16073_f_at 16105_s_at 16111_f_at16127_s_at 16534_s_at 16582_s_at 16589_s_at 16747_at 17019_s_at17129_s_at 17160_at 17520_s_at 17538_s_at 17555_s_at 17609_at 17896_at17971_s_at 17975_at 17978_s_at 18121_s_at 18167_s_at 18197_at 18222_at18318_at 18576_s_at 18629_s_at 18738_f_at 18742_f_at 18744_f_at18745_f_at 18747_f_at 18750_f_at 18751_f_at 18789_at 18834_at 18942_at19083_at 19202_at 19209_s_at 19232_s_at 19315_at 19489_s_at 19611_s_at19646_s_at 19707_s_at 19722_s_at 19744_at 19755_at 19836_at 19860_at19866_at 19898_at 20262_at 20335_s_at 20362_at 20424_at 20437_at20456_at 20515_s_at 20635_s_at

TABLE 30 2X PHOSPHATES (COLD, SALINE & OSMOTIC STRESSES) 12470_at12556_at 13128_at 13135_s_at 13180_s_at 13192_s_at 13193_s_at 13587_at13995_at 14335_at 15073_at 15171_s_at 15240_at 15586_s_at 15641_s_at15651_f_at 15990_at 16232_s_at 16576_f_at 16753_at 17423_s_at 17525_s_at17537_s_at 17929_s_at 17954_s_at 18012_s_at 18308_i_at 18616_at 18847_at18936_at 18980_at 19243_at 19263_at 19638_at 19883_at 19932_at 20333_at20393_at 20570_at

TABLE 31 2X KINASES (COLD, SALINE & OSMOTIC STRESSES) 12253_g_at12270_at 12271_s_at 12276_at 12278_at 12284_at 12300_at 12307_at12353_at 12357_s_at 12390_at 12394_at 12395_s_at 12408_at 12452_at12477_at 12490_at 12497_at 12532_at 12697_at 12901_s_at 12902_at12958_at 12959_at 13068_at 13246_at 13324_at 13332_at 13362_s_at13370_at 13550_at 14030_at 14048_at 14194_at 14196_at 14217_at 14459_at14603_at 14637_s_at 14686_s_at 15005_s_at 15175_s_at 15270_at 15475_s_at15497_s_at 15577_s_at 15616_s_at 15633_s_at 15634_s_at 15668_s_at15680_s_at 15798_at 16034_at 16059_s_at 16087_s_at 16088_f_at 16125_s_at16137_s_at 16140_s_at 16143_s_at 16144_s_at 16160_f_at 16171_s_at16357_at 16412_s_at 16568_s_at 16570_s_at 16571_s_at 16584_s_at16651_s_at 16652_s_at 16672_at 16818_s_at 16840_at 17068_s_at 17122_s_at17252_at 17323_at 17475_at 17752_at 17921_s_at 17933_at 17935_at18013_r_at 18046_s_at 18122_at 18176_at 18316_at 18455_at 18459_at18482_s_at 18543_at 18706_s_at 18782_at 18924_at 19117_s_at 19437_s_at19442_at 19458_at 19464_at 19469_at 19562_at 19655_at 19749_at 19854_at19904_at 20144_at 20219_at 20223_at 20232_s_at 20235_i_at 20282_s_at20298_at 20396_at 20439_at 20462_at

1. A transgenic plant, which contains a transgene comprising a regulatory element of a plant stress-regulated gene, wherein the regulatory element comprises the nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:3729.
 2. The transgenic plant of claim 1, wherein the transgenic plant exhibits altered responsiveness to a stress condition as compared to a corresponding wild-type plant.
 3. The transgenic plant of claim 2, wherein the transgene disrupts an endogenous stress-regulated gene in the plant, thereby reducing or inhibiting expression of the gene in response to a stress condition.
 4. The transgenic plant of claim 1, wherein the transgene comprises a coding sequence of a plant stress-regulated gene.
 5. The transgenic plant of claim 4, wherein the coding sequence is operatively linked to said regulatory element.
 6. The transgenic plant of claim 1, wherein the transgene comprises said regulatory element operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence.
 7. The transgenic plant of claim 6, wherein the transgenic plant expresses a polypeptide encoded by the heterologous nucleotide sequence.
 8. The transgenic plant of claim 1, wherein the plant comprises multiple transgenes.
 9. The transgenic plant of claim 1, wherein the transgene comprises an osmotic stress-regulated gene.
 10. The transgenic plant of claim 9, wherein the osmotic stress resistance gene is operatively linked to the regulatory element.
 11. The transgenic plant of claim 9 which has improved osmotic stress resistance.
 12. The transgenic plant of claim 1, wherein the transgene comprises a heat stress-regulated gene.
 13. The transgenic plant of claim 12, wherein the heat stress resistance gene is operatively linked to the regulatory element.
 14. The transgenic plant of claim 12 which has improved heat stress resistance.
 15. The transgenic plant of claim 1, wherein the transgene comprises an anaerobic stress-regulated gene.
 16. The transgenic plant of claim 15, wherein the anaerobic stress resistance gene is operatively linked to the regulatory element.
 17. The transgenic plant of claim 15 which has improved anaerobic stress resistance.
 18. A regulatory element of a plant stress-regulated gene which has at least 90% sequence identity to the nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:3729.
 19. The regulatory element of claim 18, comprising the nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:3729.
 20. The regulatory element of claim 18, comprising a nucleotide sequence that is at least 95% identical to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:3729.
 21. The regulatory element of claim 18, comprising a nucleotide sequence that is at least 99% identical to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:3729. 